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DIVINITY AND MAI 



A DOCTRINAL HYPOTHESIS 



UPON THE STRUCTURAL ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE, 
THE CAREER AND DESTINY OF THE SOUL AND 
THE MORAL OBLIGATIONS OF LIFE 




W. PC. ROBERTS 




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M. N. ROBERTS 
Mexico. Missouri. 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1895, by 
W. K. ROBERTS, 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at 
Washington, D. C. 



PREFATORY CODEX COMPENDIUM. 



/. Deity is impersonal — is compreliensive of and i?i- 
separable from the eoininon material and intelleetual 
eojiipojients of the illimitable imiverse. 

2. Inflate prificiples, as attributes of Deity, inter- 
permeate and govern the finite in nature. 

J. Under fxed and eternal lai^^s, pkniet zvorlds are 
evolved from the solar orbs in space, and luhen com- 
pletino' tlieir destined periods of existence are disin- 
tegrated and their snbstance matter reorgainzed for ne^w 
worlds. 

-/.. The human soul, as an eternal factor of the 
universe, is elected to an endless c/iain of cycles, a?id dur- 
ing each of ifs cycles is afforded an opportuinty for an 
earthly incarjicdion and for a period of He a veidy bliss. 

J. The intellectual status of tJie soul upo/i entering 
the realm of spirit corresponds to that of its most exalted 
estate duri?ig the fleshly life. . 

6. The spirit has a progressive career from bodily 
death till its arrival at the Pan Elysium, or terminal 
Heaven, lie nee it turns back to earth as an 7inconscious 
elemental ajui begins a nei^ cycle of existe/ices. 

7. A?i ifispirational pover of se?ising Infinite truth 
subsists ill every huawni mi//d, -vhiich vntli culture and 
exercise vill guide the intellectued destiny a/ni ennoble 
and spiritualize t/ie soul. 



Prefatory Codex CompendiMm. 



8. The inspired human mind is the oidy resource 
through which esoteric knowledge of the I?ifi?nte or of 
the spifitual universe can be obtained, 

g, Man's nature, inherently pure and honorably in- 
tentiofied, is liable to attaints from misguided actions or 
acquired vicious prope?isities, which in their effects op- 
press the soul and impair the happiness until duly atoned 
for by compe7isative righteous?iess. 

IG. Happifiess is co7iditional upon harmony with 
divine law, which in tuni dema?ids the employment of 
the iittellectual and bodily energies toward the personal 
well being a?id the rendering of efficie?it assistance to 
others. 



INDEX, 



BOOK I. 

THE DEIFIC UNIVERSE. 

Chapter I. Theokosmos. 

Deity Inclusive of all the Powers and Elements 
of the Universe. 
Chapter II. Functional Components of the Deific Universe. 



BOOK II. 

the material, vital and paradisial organization 
OF the universe. 

Chapter I. The Interstellar Sub-Universes. 
Chapter II. The Paradisial System of the Sub-Universes. 
Chapter III. Evolution and Disruption of the Material 
Worlds. 

Chapter IV . The Character and ?vIethods of Certain Ob- 
scure Forces and Elements of the Sub- 
Universe. 



BOOK in. 

THE IMMORTAL EGO AND ITS METHODS AND RELATIONSHIPS 
IN NATURE. 

Chapter I. Pre-Natai Existence of the Soul and iis 

Germinative Processes. 
Chapter II. Inherent Relaiionship of Elementals to the 
Embodied Types and Orders. 



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Index. 



Chapter III. Processes of Embodiment of the Elemental. 
Chapter IV. Importance of the Life Phase of the Anima- 
tive Cycle. 

Chapter V. Pre-Ordained and Volitional Powers of the 
Soul During Its Conscious Cycle. 



BOOK IV. 

spheres, conditions and experiences that appertain 

TO THE spiritual UNIVERSE. 

Chapter I. Conditions and Experiences of the Soul in 

the Lower Spiritual Zone. 
Chapter II. Conditions and Experiences of the Soul in the 

Intermediate Spiritual Zone. 
Chapter III. Conditions and Experiences of the Soul in 

the Upper Spiritual Zone. 
Chapter IV. Conditions and Experiences of the Soul in 

Pan-Elysium. 

Chapter V. Certain Phases and Experiences of the Soul 

in Its Spiritual Career. 
Chapter VL Soul Intercommunion Between the Material 

and Spiritual Planes . 
Chapter VII. Spirit Interest in and Capacity of Influencing 

Mankind. 

Chapter VIII. The Conditions of Election to Spiritual Lead- 
ership. 



BOOK V. 

RULING faculties AND TRAITS OF THE SOUL DURING ITS 
corporeal EXISTENCE. 



Chapter I. 



Relation of the Soul to Its Fleshly Body. 



Index. 



ChaptePv II. Normal and Abnormal Conditions of the 

Nutritional Appetites, 
Chapter III. Normal and Abnormal Sexuality. 
Chapter \\ .. Normal and Abnormal Combativeness. 
Chapter V. Capabilities of the )*Ioral Consciousness. 
Chapter VI. The Faculty of Spiritual Cognition. 
Chapter \\\. The \^olitional or Will Power of the Intellect. 
Chapter A^III. Reactionary Portents and Possibilities of 

Karma. 



BOOK Vi. 

max as a morally responsible being. 

Chapter 1. Essential Obligations in Life and the Rewards 
of Efficiently Meeting Them. 

Chapter II. Reactionary Effects of Propitious and of L'n- 
propitious Thoughts Upon the Mind and 
Body. 

Chapter III. Reactionary Effects of Religious and Worthy 
and of Irreligious and Unworthy I\Iethods. 

Chapter \W Self Reformation and Conquest of the Pas-" 
sions. 

Chapter \ . The A^alue of Practical Direction of the 
Energies Early in Life, 

Chapter W. The Psychical' and Intellectual Endowment of 
Posterity. 



BOOK VIL 

intersocial relationships and insti 

Chapter I. ?\Iarriage as a Beneficent Relationship of the - 
Sexes. 



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Index, 



Chapter II. The Mutual Interests of Men of Every Social 
Estate and Occupation. 

Chapter III. The Change of Attitude of Citizen Toward 
Ruler Through Progressive Enlighten- 
ment. 

Chapter W . The Conditions of Accord of Governmental 
Methods with Popular Sentiment. 

Chapter \ , Conditions Resultant of the Prevalence in the 
Nation of One or the Other of Certain Dis- 
similar Classes of Men. 

Chapter VI. Popular Sentiments that May Contribute 
Either to the Upbuilding or to the Down- 
fall of a Nation. 



BOOK VIII. 

the adjudgment of individuals by their traits and 
qualifications. 
Chapter I. He that is Discreet and Practical Compared 
wnth Him that is Indiscreet and Imprac- 
tical. 

Chapter II. The Morally Enlightened and the Morally 
Un-enlightened Compared. 

Chapter III. The man of Chaste Sexuality Compared with 
the Man of Unchaste Sexuality. 

Chapter IV. Traits and Methods of the True Statesman. 

Chapter V. Traits and Methods of the Wrongheaded and 
Unscrupulous ]Man. 

Chapter VL Traits and Methods of the Sagelike Man. 



BOOK IX. 



the HUMAN MIND IN ITS CONNECTION WITH THE REACTIONARY, 
COMPENSATIVE AND RETRIBUTIVE IN NATURE. 

Chapter I. Effects of the Presence or Absence of Moral 
Principles in the Mind. 



Index. ix 

Chapter II. Effects of the Presence or Absence of Relig- 
ious Fervor. 

Chapter III. ?vIethods Essential to the Proper Successes 

and Joys in Life. 
Chapter W . Prevalent Sins in Their Reactionary Methods 

and Effects. 
Chapter \ . Atonement for Sin. 

Chapter Preparation and Perfection of the Soul for 
Spiritual Existence. 



BOOK X. 

commands and admonitions. 
Chapter T. To Sages and Leaders of the Aryan Nations. 
Chapter II. To Sages and Leaders of the Semite Nations. 
Chapter III. To Sages and Leaders of the Turanian 
Nations. 

Chapter I\'. To Sages and Leaders of the Ethiopian 
Nations. 

Chapter V. To the influential Citizen on the Principles 
^ and ^Methods of Society and Government. 
Chapter VI. To Parents and Heads of Families. 
Chapter VII. To Elders and Supporters of Religious Or- 
ganizations. 

Chapter ATII. To Religious Ministers and Teachers. 
Chapter IX. To the Individual in Daily Life. 



BOOK XI. 

THE Origin and development of religious principles, 

DOCTRINES AND CREEDS. 

Chapter I. Characteristics and Methods of the Primitive 
Sages. 

Chapter II. Religious Sages of the Past and their Achieve- 
ments. 



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bidex. 



Chapter III. The Conformity of Religious Doctrines to Con- 
temporary Civilization 

Chapter IV^ The Conflict of Exoteric Religion with Inspira- 
tion and Reason . 

Chapter V. The Conditions of Acceptibility Imposed by 
Popular Sentiment upon the Creed of an 
Enlightened Age . 



BOOK XH. 

psalms. 

Chapter I. Glorification of the Infinite. 
Chapter II. Glorification of the Infinite Soul. 
Chapter III. Clorification of Infinite Justice. 
Chapter IV. Glorification of Infinite Love. 
Chapter V. Invocation of Infinite Love. 



BOOK XIII. 

ALLEGORY. THE TOUR OF THE STAR SPIRITS. 

Scene I. — Ilbarama. — Upper Spiritual Zone of the Earth. 

Elomiel, — Court of Ibrim. 
Scene II. — A Conservatorium of Planetary History. 
Scene III. — First Methelian Age. The Beginning of the 

Present Kalpa Cycle. 
Scene IV. — Second Methelian Age. Nebulous Stage of the 

Nephelian Planets, 
Scene V. — Third Methelian Age. The Sun — Nephela, and its 

Planets. 

Scene VI.— Fourth Methelian Age.— Development of the 
Planet Earth. 

Scene VII. — Fifth Methelian Age. Creation of Land and 
Water. 

Scene VIII. — Sixth Methelian Age. Creation of Mountains, 
Seas and Rivers . 



Index. 



XI 



Scene IX. — Seventh Methelian Age. Preparation of the 

Earth's Surface Strata. 
Scene X. — Eighth Methehan Age. Origin of Life on the 

Earth. 

Scene XI.— Ninth Methelian Age. Evolution of Life Forms. 
Scene XII. — Tenth Methelian Age. — ^First Megazoan Age. 

Glacial and Volcanic Processes. . - 
Scene XIII. — Second Megazoan Age. — The Attainment of 

Luxuriant Vegetation and of Huge Animal 

Forms. 

Scene XIV. — Third Megazoan A^e. Improvement in the 
Conditions of the Earth and in the Status of 
its Inhabitants. 

Scene XV. — Fourth Megazoan Age. — First Anthropogenian 
Age, Origin of the Human Genera. 

Scene XVI. — Second Anthropogenian Age. The Struggles of 
Primal ]\Ian with the Elements and . with 
X^oxious and Predaceous Animals. 

Scene XVII. — Third Anthropogenian Age. Separation ot the 
Human Types from the Quadrumana. 

Scene XVIII. — Fourth Anthropogenian Age. — First Episte- 
mian Age. Development of Intellect and 
Reason in Primal Man. 

Scene XIX. — Second Epistemian Age. Development of Reli- 
gious Traits and Political Methods Among 
Men. 

Scene XX. — Third Epistemian Age. Migrations and War- 
like Encroachments of the Races. 

Scene XXL — Fourth Epistemian Age. — First Anagrian Age. 

Racial Antagonisms and the Delineation of 
N'ational Boundaries. 

Scene XXII. — Second xA.nagrian Age. Status of the Terrestrial 
Surface and of the Life Forms Extant, 

Scene XXIII. — Third Anugiian Age. The Instinctive 
Struggle of the Races for Domams Suitable 
to their Posterity. 



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Index. 



Scene XXIV. — Fourth Anagrian Age.-— First Agathiari Age. 

Numerical Increase of the Intellectual Types 
and Elimination of the Ill-favored and Savage 
Elements. 

Scene XXV. — Second Agathian Age. The Developnient of 
Defensive and Aggressive Prowess and the 
Founding of National Institutions. 

Scene XXVI.— Third Agathian Age. The Evolution of Moral 
and Religious Principles Among Men. 

Scene XXVII.— Fourth Agathian Age.— First Ajitanian Age. 

The Favorable Tendencies in Material Na- 
ture and the Advance of Human Civilization. 

Scene XXVIII.— Second Ajitanian Age, The Struggles of 
the Progressive with the Retrogressive Ele- 
ments of the Races. 

Scene XXIX, — Third Ajitanian Age. The Development of 
Four Distinctive Civilizations. 

Scene XXX. — Fourth Ajitanian Age. — First Sajanian Age. 

The Attainment by the Human Races of the 
Status which Historic Records Disclose. 

Scene XXXI. — A Conservatorium of Prophecy. 

Races and Civilizations of the Millenial 
Future. 

Scene XXXII.— The Religion of the Millenial Epoch. 
Scene XXXIII.— Termination of Life on the Earth. 
Scene XXXIV.— The Disintegration of the Material World. 
Scene XXXV.— The Descent to the Material Plane. 

First Terrestrial Observation, Ethiopia. 
Scene XXXVI. — Second Observation, Arabia. 
Scene XXXVII. — Third Observation, Eastern Asia. 
Scene XXXVIII. — Fourth Observation, Europe. 
Scene XXXIX. — Fifth Terrestrial Observation, America. 
Scene XL. — Tarampa — Lower Spiritual Zone. 
Scene XLI. — Benimba — Intermediate Spiritual Zone. 
Scene XLII. — Ilbarama — Superior Spiritual Zone. 
Scene XLIII.—Elomiel— Court of Ibrim. 



Book I. 



The Deific Universe. 



CHAPTER 1. 
THEOKOSMOS. 

DEITY INCLUSIVE OF ALL THE POWERS AND ELEMENTS OF 
THE UNIVERSE. 

The Deific universe embraces all in all the vast 
chasms of heavenly space, and within these ample 
domains each material body, element and entity 
performs certain specific functions and serves in 
some capacity every other body, element and entity 
extant in nature. The great semi-independent stel- 
lar groups abounding in heavenly space are as frag- 
mentary or detached portions of the one illimitable 
Deific system, and within each of these component 
or sub-universes is focalized the essential governing 
and distributive agencies for maintaining all its 
varied parts active and harmoniously attuned. Deity 
thus all inclusive hath one phase of Its body struc- 
ture manifest as material and spiritual worlds- and 
another phase manifest as attenuated etherea filling 
the apparent vacuum of immaterial space. Certain 
Deific potentialities focalized about our planet 
world create the phenomena of the material and 
spiritual planes, while the grand confluence of 



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The Deific Universe. 



potentialities about the central regions of the 
component stellar universe to which it belongs 
create the ultimate Heaven and the Nirvana 
toward which the soul of man hath instinctive 
yearnings. As the members and organs of man's 
body are to the soul instruments through which its 
faculties may manifest and execute their functions, 
so are the organized suns and worlds serviceable 
vehicles through which the different traits and pow- 
ers of Deity manifest and perpetuate themselves. 
From each sub-universal focus potential energies 
flow forth to the outermost boundaries of the 
material system surrounding it; one line or stream 
of which rapid moving and incisive elements, may- 
hap; sets in process necessary revolutions within a 
solar orb while another is functioned to supply the 
subtle principles sustenant of the human intellect. 
Comparable to the nervous circulation of the human 
body, carrying intelligence to and from the mind's 
central focus, there are currents and strains through- 
out the universe by which various Infinite and finite 
powers vibrate and intercommunicate each part and 
element with all other parts and elements; thus af- 
fording mutually beneficent conditions and likewise 
a Deific cognition of all that transpires within its 
illimitable domains. For purposes of finite compre- 
hension, the Deific Universe ma,y be resolved into 
seven original principles or primary elements, each 
of which hath certain allotted traits and functions, 
and the innumerable sub-divisions of these expan- 
sive faculties afford all the tangible and intangible, 
the knowable and unknowable phenomena in nature. 



TJie Deific Universe. 



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CHAPTER II. 

FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS OF THE DEIFIC UNIVERSE. 



The elements and substances constituting the 
ponderable in nature, or that which is distinctly or 
remotely palpable to the human intellect, 
and ni^y be arranged and classified as the 

Ponderable body proper of Deity, or as a principle or 

in Nature. ^ \ ^ ^ 1 • 1 1 f . 

faculty upon which the tangible manifest- 
ations of the physical world are dependent. The 
dense or gravitative substances of the material 
plane represent the humbler estate of this principle 
or faculty; those substances possessed of a volatile, 
gaseous or vaporous quality pertain to its more remote 
or less tangible phenomena while the organic forms 
of plants and animals show the marvellous results 
of its combination with and utilization by the other 
Deific faculties extant. This faculty of the Theo- 
kosmos is in itself inert and insensate, but when 
acted upon by certain other functional principles it 
becomes resolvable into planetary nebula, into terres- 
trial strata or subtle atmospheric gases or the atten- 
uated components of animal flesh and blood. W'hen 
its essential elements are organized as solar or plane- 
tary bodies, placed at convenient distances from 
each other in the etherea of space, it hath the capa- 
city of an osseous framework that may be clothed 
about with elements vitalizing, beautifying and com- 
pleting the material and spiritual order in nature. 
The density of its elements, in comparison with 
other Deific faculties, enables each orb of the 
stellar-universe to maintain itself a focal balance of 



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Tlie Deific Universe, 



gravitative attraction and repulsion in the heavens 
while the different cyclic phases prevalent in these 
solar and planetary bodies induces sufficient erratic 
diversion of the mobile energies for continued circu- 
lative activity. Its elements organized as planet 
worlds furnish a substratum whereon and wherewith 
soul entities may germinate the physical body and 
sustain an important phase of their existence . Thus 
matter hath a potentiality in Deific nature as a plastic 
and a substantial vehicle wherewith a class of higher 
faculties may subsist and add their portion toward 
the eternal processes of the vast mechanism man 
terms the universe — a mechanism that hath repeated 
its cyclic measures throughout the aeons of the past 
and which will continue their repetition throughout 
all future time. 

A restless and incisive principle obtains 
Fnergicai in nature whose elements have various 
impulsive niethods of demonstration to the human 
jii Nature. perceptions, whereby the one inherent 
power becomes subject to many names and classi- 
fications, according to the material menstruum or 
vehicle with w^hich it is immediately concerned. 
According to the ordinary human perceptions, there 
prevails within the environs of nature an intermin- 
able array of forces or energies, each clearly dis- 
tinctive from all others; profound inspiration, 
however, reveals these forces and energies as mere 
sub-divisions of a single specific faculty or charac- 
teristic of the Theokosmos. This all pervading prin- 
ciple demonstrates its power as magnetism, electricity 
or volcanic turbulence according to surrounding ma- 



The Deific Universe. 



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terials or influences and may engage itself in every 
conceivable activity; as in the hurling of planetary 
substance from a sun into space and arranging it upon 
an orbit sufficiently distanced from other celestial 
bodies, or in the minor details of planetary develop- 
ment or in enabling the common functions of ani- 
mated life. The faculty is remarkable for the obscur- 
ity of its motive powers, whose effects only are dis- 
closed to the ordinary human understanding, and it 
is through this mystery of their actual source and 
purports that these effects have frequently been made 
objects of worship by mankind. Primal force is thus 
a potentiality permeating the functional universe, 
generating impulse and effectively preventing 
inertia and so keeping orderly all the essen- 
tial elements and properties in nature. 

The Theokosmic life principle is func- 
vitaiand tioned to incorporate with materiality 
Assimilative and to dcvclop the various physical sub- 
in Nature. stances apparent to man as plant and 
animal growths. It is capable of expression only in 
special phases of materiality and upon a planet world 
that hath reached a sufficient tranquility and de- 
velopment of its surface formations to receive the 
embodied soul. When the requisite planetary con- 
ditions are present this faculty emerges from its in- 
visible phase, in response to elemental visitants from 
heavenly space, and grasping and assimilating matter, 
it fashions therefrom plant or animal bodies accord- 
ing to the requirements of the ego individualities 
concerned. In its disorganized or inactive estate, its 
components are disseminated throughout the atmos- 



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Tlic Deific Uiiiverse. 



pheric envelope of sun or planet as an impalpable 
etherea, and subsisting thus temporarily serviceless 
and inoccuous it awaits the summons of ante-natal 
souls to whom it responds with the body develop- 
ment they require. In itself it is an unresisting and 
dependent principle but endowed with a responsive- 
ness to the elemental ego that enables procreative 
virility and the maturation of the body organism. 
Its peculiar qualities have their clearest manifesta- 
tion to the finite mind in the digestive and assimila- 
tive processes of life, when material substances are 
grasped and quickly transformed into the body ele- 
ments of plant or animal. When its services are no 
longer required by an ego individual, it withdraws 
from the body it hath sustained and reverts to the 
impalpable estate until attracted by other entities 
seeking embodiment. 

The principle describable as The- 
inipondera= okosmic Spirit hath an unending or un- 
^}^. , broken extension throup;hout the universe, 

Spiritual ^ ' 

in Nature. but with its elements sub-divided in such 
order that an illimitable host of widely varying for- 
mations may often be found in close association with 
each other or subsisting upon the same plane of 
activity. It is the principle from which souls 
in the disembodied estate construct their per- 
sonal forms or habilaments and likewise the 
numberless objects of decoration and conven- 
ience with which they may surround them- 
selves. In all its broad extents it maintains its 
immaterial features and never interblends with mat- 
ter so as to become apparent to the ordinary human 



The Deific Universe. 



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perception. It is susceptible of infinitely varied ex- 
pressions of its elements, even exceeding the diver- 
sified capacities of the life principle in nature; which 
affords thus ample facilities for beautifying the sur- 
roundings of every disembodied intelligence and en- 
tity in existence. As the vital principle is eagerly 
responsive to the soul approaching orsustaining em- 
bodiment, so is the spiritual principle eagerly 
responsive to the soul after its disembodiment; 
making itself obedient to the individual will for 
purposes of comfort or adornment. In its relation 
to the material world; it may be described as hover- 
ing above and repeating every terrestrial feature and 
employing itself to have ready molded an astral 
body for each entity in life, so that when the transi- 
tion of death takes place, there is in wait a fitting 
spirit envelope corresponding to the physical out- 
lines of the mortal form. 

The This function of the Theokosmic sys- 

and^*""*"^ tem hath two distinct components; one 
Directive being the governing and unchanging In- 
in Nature. finite in nature, and the other being the 
subjective and constantly changing finite. In its 
Infinite aspects the function embraces the essen- 
tials of Deific will and exercises a governance 
over other parts and faculties of the universe, 
after a manner that may be likened unto the 
human will in its governance of the mind and 
body. In its finite aspects it embraces the ego 
entities extant in nature, that, while eternal 
in their inherent individualities, are subject to 
a routine of cyclic changes and an impetus that 



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The Deific Lhiiverse. 



prevents them from attaining a fixed status either 
of intellect, position or abode. The Infinite com- 
ponent holds all nature in orderly balance, subor- 
dinating the finite to needful movements; the finite 
component constantly aspires toward and sup- 
plicates the Infinite and through ardent and hope- 
ful effort performs the services requisite to its de- 
partment in the material and spiritual worlds. 
Thus one division of the faculty becomes necessarily 
dependent upon the other; like unto the depen- 
dence of a commander upon his army for execution 
and the dependence of an army upon its com- 
mander for skilful guidance. The impersonal In- 
finite component constantly employs itself to supply 
inspiration and to fill the mental atmosphere with 
a consciousness of divine justice and love; though 
in traversing space or through contact with ma- 
teriality the influence it is functioned to yield may 
suffer deterioration in chasteness or deflection from 
inherent purports, so that when inspired and inter- 
preted by man it hath partaken of or assumed cer- 
tain finite characteristics. The personal finite com- 
, ponent normally employs itself during the conscious 
part of its cycle in overcoming the defects in its in- 
tellectual growth and in mastering the obstacles and 
impediments its surroundings afford. The two com- 
ponents of this principle of the universe, with their 
remarkable differences in characteristics and func- 
tions, are ordained to intim 'ely approach each other 
and to labor together for their mutual well being 
and in maintenance of an harmonious relationship 
with the aggregation of faculties constituting the 
One complete Deific System. 



The Deific Universe, 



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The Exac= A faculty of unerring justice obtains 

tive, com= Dcific universc which exacts from 

andRetribu= cach element and entity and organized 

tive in bod\' extant its proper meed of activity, 

Nature. ' . \ / ^ , 

or contribution or benencence to nature s 
domains, and, while compensating for every fulfil- 
ment of natural obligations, it is as surely retribu- 
tive for evilly directed energy or inefficiency. It 
permeates the material and spiritual s}-stems of the 
universe as a high intellectual or ruling trait, repeat- 
ing in the subjective intellect of man a measure of 
its purports, so that the purest phases of human 
equity supply a fair intimation of the faculty in its 
divine estate. In its methods it may appear rigid 
and unsympathetic and as taking no consideration 
of circumstances or individual defects; for it re- 
wards and punishes apparently without distinctions, 
in accordance with the action itself and irrespective 
of actuating causes. Its fixedness of routine gives 
man his intuitional fear of Deit\' and makes him so 
apprehensive of his weaknesses as to engender despair 
of self purification and to lead to a search after some 
interceding power to redeem or prepare him for his 
spiritual future. In itself it becomes the highest 
conception of a threatening or unyielding surveil- 
lance over man; in combination with other faculties 
of the Deific system it displays wisdom, order and 
reliability in nature as against petulant and arbitrar\- 
methods. 

The Affec= Deit}', as an all inclusive entity that 
tionaiand enfolds cvcrv portion and element of the 

Sympathetic ' ^ r ^ i 

in Nature. univcrsc, howcvcr rehned or however 



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The Deific Universe. 



base, cannot consistently be made an object of affec-. 
tionate worship by earthly beings, who are 
nroreover, in themselves an essential constituent of 
the Deific structure. The human heart, there- 
fore, requires some essential function or principle 
of the all embracing Deity to which adoration may 
be directed and which is qualified to bene- 
ficently respond to the supplications of the soul, 
however deserving or undeserving the individual 
supplicant may be. Such an adorable principle hath 
been portrayed in the personalities of Krishna, 
Buddha, Christ and Mohamed and toward it, 
according to its lights, the human soul is wont to 
confidingly direct its praises and aspirations. 
As an actuality in nature this Deific principle 
hath the trait of a responsive and devotional 
affection in the great Mind of the universe, that 
corresponds to a responsive, devotional or 
parentive trait in the mind of man. It is inter- 
blended with and capable of exerting a percepti- 
ble and necessary influence over all the parts and 
elements of the Deific universe, in like manner as 
the religious or parentive affections permeate and 
exert a perceptible and necessary influence over the 
parts and functions of the human soul. It becomes 
virtually the savior of man's soul from the despon- 
dency or despair that results from transgression or the 
apprehension of personal defects, through inspiring 
him with hopeful energy, a yearning for an im- 
proved moral status and with a desire to aright the 
consequences of his wrongdoings. It hath not 
power to absolve from the legitimate consequences 



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of evil acts, but through an inspiring light informs 
the soul of its position or appeals to it, through the 
moral consciousness, to enter upon a course of self im- 
provement and reparation. Its effect is also to modify 
the severer portents of Deific justiee toward man. 
when his inherent or acquired w^eaknesses and evil 
propensities threaten to overwhelm and crush his 
spirit. It is wont to stir the kindlier impulses and 
affections and to attract the mind of man toward 
that which is unquestionably righteous or honorably 
beneficent to himself or his dependents. It strives 
even to shield him from the natural consequences of 
his own misguided actions or to so enlighten his in- 
tellect as to lead him into the safest and m.ost ex- 
peditious method of compensation and self redemp- 
tion. It constitutes the most refined and admirable 
trait of Deity and that principle in nature which is 
at all times accessible to man or responsive to his 
earnest supplications; yielding a counselling and 
spiritualizing influence that enables him to tran- 
scend the animal impulses and to maintain a righte- 
ous course in life. In the pursuit of its functions it 
flows forth from the Paradisial centres in space to 
the populated worlds and without disposal to arbi- 
trary favors, it hath a more ready approach to self- 
quickened and spiritually deserving minds, whose 
wants and capacities it discovers and supplies as free 
air discovers and flows into a vacuum. It responds 
to and fills with beneficent inspiration every spirit- 
'ually hungering miind. eliciting therein a joy like 
unto that of a famine stricken land when the desired 
waters come upon it. Hence. Deific love becomes 



24 



The Deific Universe. 



the chietest and most suitable object for man's re- 
ligious devotions; inasmuch as no other principle in 
nature evokes such nobility of sentiment or bends 
the human heart to like self abnegation and resigna- 
tion to the inevitable as this sublime faculty when 
its endemic influence is felt or its purports under- 
stood. 



Book II. 



The Material, Vital and Paradisial Organization 
of the Universe. 



CHAPTER I. 
THE INTERSTELLAR SUB-UMVERSES. 

As every atom of the inorganic world and even 
the most minute of vital growths sheweth perfection 
of design and structure, so also doth every impalp- 
able element and ponderous bod}' of the stellar uni- 
verse show to the specialh" skilled or inspired intel- 
lect a corresponding design and fitness in nature. 
Throughout the distant reaches of heavenh' space 
there maintains an analogous order and accuracy of 
organization to that which prevails upon the terres- 
trial surface or within the borders of the observable 
solar and planetar\- systems. Thus the fixed stars 
are to be constanth" seen in the specific locality 
assigned to them, then' planet worlds move in proper 
orbits and no virtually erratic or inexplicable pheno- 
mena is found in all the host of brilliant orbs that the 
shades of night make visible. In the organization of 
the major properties of the universe it becomes 
essential that within certain measured intervals in 
the chasms of the greater heavens there shall main- 
tain an allotment of the denser materialit}'. formed 



26 Material, Vital a?id Paradisial Organization, 

as a seggregated star cluster, self sustaining, yet re- 
motely inter-dependent upon other such clusters, 
after the manner of the inter-dependence known to 
subsist between the closely associated suns and 
planets that come within the range of demonstrable 
mathematical admeasurement. These great star 
clusters are each endowed with a complicated inter- 
nal mechanism that maintains the body politic a 
permanent organism throughout the aeons of time, 
repelling the encroachments of adverse extraneous 
matter or the too near approach of other stellar aggre- 
gations. Each of these stellar systems is complete in 
its material and spiritual endowments, being intrinsi- 
cally a nucleus of Deific power in Its peculiar distribu- 
tion throughout the illimitable universe, maintaining 
among its higher functions a great spiritual center as 
a focus of outflowing and inflowing etherealized forces 
and entities that periodically revert to and from the 
materiality of the surrounding solar and planetary 
orbs. The internal harmony of these sub-universes 
demands that each solar and planetary system with- 
in their domains shall perpetuate itself and shall be 
endowed with the capacities of self-renewal and a 
periodical reorganization of its parts. Hence, each 
individual solar o'rb must expel matter and form 
planets thereof, which upon running their course and 
exhausting their life sustaining powers shall be in- 
drawn, dissolved in the solar mass and eventually 
expelled again to form other pla:nets. Thus, in the 
complete structural order of the sub-universe, each 
tangible and intangible element and entity is ordain- 
ed to functional cycles in which it performs services 



Material. Vital and Paradisial Organization. 27 



conducive to the perpetuity and harmony of the sys- 
tem as a whole ; the central or terminal Heaven be- 
ing- the inheritance and resort at duly regulated in- 
tervals of all the component forces and entities in 
their superior or spiritualized phase of existence. 



CHAPTER H. 

THE PARADISIAL SYSTEM OF THE SUB-UNIVERSES. 

Within each mterconnective star group subsistent 
in space, there maintains a central nucleus of direct- 
ive powers in nature that is also a pole of converg- 
ence and of distribution for every impalpable and 
spiritual element and entity pertaining to the stellar 
group concerned. Within these central stellar 
sources there pulsates a peculiar Deific energy that 
gives perpetual movement and a routine of cyclic 
changes to the surrounding worlds ; simulating in its 
methods the energy of the human heart as it attracts 
the vital stream from every organ of the bod\' and 
v/hen having derived from and imparted to this sus- 
tenant stream certain essential powers, sends it forth 
to traverse again the same bodily organs. In their 
order, there are streams of germinative life flowing 
forth to the planet worlds, endowing them with po- 
tential growths that afterward reverting to the im- 
palpable or spiritual estate flow back to the fountain 
source, endowing it in turn with equalh' potential 
power and glory. The inner processes of these 
superior realms in nature are necessarily hidden from 
or areincomprehensible to uninspired man; for while 



28 Material, Vital and Paradisial Organization. 

upheld by laws absolutely exact and unchanging, 
the innumerable cycles within cycles and the varied 
agencies of their complete organic systems, places 
their interpretation beyond the skill of the human 
intellect that hath not had, in addition to the expe- 
riences of the incarnate life, a period of observation 
in spiritual zones. The great interstellar heart, 
functioned to indraw, reorganize and send forth 
again every mobile or circulative force and element 
within the sub-universal boundaries, hath a peculiar 
spiritual significance in that it becomes a nirvanic 
Heaven to each conscious entity at the terminal of 
its animative or embodying cycle. 



CHAPTER HI. 

EVOLUTIONJ AND DISRUPTION OF THE MATERIAL WORLDS. 

Attached to each fixed orb of the sub-universe is 
an allotment of cosmic matter, maintained either in 
the form of gaseous nebula or solidifying planetary 
masses or as tranquil, life sustaining worlds, or 
worlds that have run their vital course and are ap- 
proaching disintegration. Every orb of this char- 
acter, while yet a fixed and permanent factor in the 
stellar group, is subject to certain periodical changes 
in the position of its constituent materials whereby 
important alterations may occur in its luminous 
properties and in the extension of the planetary 
elements from its radial surface. In orderly routine 
each proper sun hath its planetary cycles, in the 
beginning of which cosmic matter is erupted and 



Material, Vital a?id Paradisial Orgainzatioii. 29 



hurled forth into space, that eventually gravitating 
into cohesive bodies and chosing suitable orbits be- 
comes in due course habitable worlds: the termina- 
tion of such cycles being marked by the indrawing 
one by one of the planet worlds and their absorp- 
tion in the parent mass. Thus the solar orb to 
which the earth owes allegiance is an established 
and self regulative body, resting forever in an ap- 
portioned region of the sub-universe, while the 
planet worlds and their satellites surrounding it 
must eventually exhaust their life sustaining utility 
and require annihilation that their elements may be 
re-organized into new planes of vital energy. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE CHARACTER A.\D METHODS OF CERTAIN OBSCURE FORCES 
AND ELEMENTS OF THE SUB-UNIVERSE. 

From the Pan-Elysium or Paradisial centre of the 
sub-universe there radiates forth a constant stream of 
vital or sustenant elements and energies that continu- 
ing outward to the stellar limits endows each special 
sun and planet and living. entity with orderly func- 
tions and capabilities. These elements and energies 
thus intersecting space in many swift moving cur- 
rents, may engage in regulating the cycles of a solar 
luminary or in conveying " elemental soul waves to 
the planets prepared for their reception, or in man- 
ipulating the innumerable agencies of lesser moment 
that appertain to every animate or free moving 
body. Each force and entity forming these obscure 



30 Material, Vital a?id Paradisial Orgainzatioii. 

currents hath a given cycle, from the epoch of its 
outflow to the epoch of its inflow, and each cycle in 
its order is followed by another similar cycle and 
these have repetition throughout all time. Along 
these hidden lines in heavenly space there proceeds 
a soul vital stream to each habitable world, that 
after forming combinations with and for a time 
manifesting itself through materiality, turns back to 
Paradise enriched with properties that compensate 
for whatever it may have seemingly lost in its act- 
ivities. This stupenduous outflow and inflow is so 
regulated that no material world or spiritual sphere 
is overfilled, while the central Heaven requires no 
expansion to accomodate the hosts forever returning 
from the material planes. It is a provision in nature 
that may be likened unto the currents of the mortal 
body that flow from the heart to the extremities 
and from the extremities to the heart and maintain- 
ing withal such evenly balanced circulation that 
there occurs neither excess nor poverty in any organ 
or locality. A cyclic stream, functioned as mental 
nourishment, flows forth and invests the surround- 
ing worlds with intellectual and emotional energy 
and which, after being appropriated by soul entities 
of the material and spiritual zones and receiving 
from them a certain transmutation, proceeds thence 
inward to the fountain source, inspiring for a time 
intellects of the Heavenly realms with its quicken- 
ing and tranquilizing influence. Such subtle ele- 
ments flowing outward to the world systems, as 
Deific spent breath, become unto finite forms and en- 
tities an inspirational and sustaining power that 



Material, Vital ajid Paradisial Orga7nzatto7i. 31 



after fulfilling its appointed services is returned as a 
Deific inspiration, while the soul entities themselves 
have a coterminous cycle wherein the apparently- 
exhausted or attenuated outflow from Paradise is 
always counterbalanced by the developed and en- 
riched inflow. Soul entities are thus intimately 
associated with and enveloped in these obscure 
streams circulating within the stellar macrocosm, 
delivering as they proceed certain potentialities 
both to the Earth and to Heaven and withal per- 
forming a worthy service in the Deific system — their 
individual rewards being in the happiness they find 
in their necessary activities. 



Book III. 



The Immorta! Ego and its Methods and Relation= 
ships in Nature. 



CHAPTER I. 

PRE-NATAL EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL AND ITS GERMINATIVE 
PROCESSES. 



During the epoch intervening between the exit 
of the elemental soul from Pan-Elysium and its mater- 
ial birth, it hath no conscious volition, but, whatever 
its natural order or species, it is borne onward by sub- 
tle repulsions and attractions with the mystic currents 
that pulsate through space to its destined world. On 
reaching the material plane it attaches itself to the 
body of an individual, of a high or low order of in- 
tellect, ordinarily in comformity with its own in- 
herent status, and awaits the opportunity of germin- 
ation. The length of its term of waiting for the 
consumation of embodiment hath dependence upon 
the measure of prosperity of its living afifinities, as, 
if belonging to a human type there may be interfer- 
ence with prolific increase by war or pestilence or 
other calamities, or, if belonging to a breed of ani- 
mals that is being rapidly exterminated it may fail 
to secure the desired birth except through the near- 



Tlie Irwnortal Ego. 



33 



est kindred of the t\'pe or breed. Thus actuated by 
the single design, material embodiment, the ante 
natal ego enters the magnetism of an affinity in the 
flesh and, whatever the attainments of its previous 
earth lives, it normally succeeds to birth among indi- 
viduals bearing close physical resemblances to those 
with whom it hath been associated during every for- 
mer cycle of its existence. 



CHAPTER IL 

INHERENT RELATIONSHIP OF ELEMENTALS TO THE EMBODIED 
TYPES AND ORDERS, 

Of the abundance of elementals projected from 
Pan-Eh'sium realms into the atmosphere of the mater- 
ial world, each type and order proceeds direct to its 
embodied affinities and each individual, guided by 
an intuitional impulse, seeks embodiment through 
those qualified to supply it a form suitable to its in- 
herent powers. A primal genera establishes its type 
and order of bodily structure in accordance with the 
demands of its inherent mentality, maintaining, how- 
ever, an adaptation to the age of its advent upon the 
material world, and those coming after it may improve 
or modify the established species to meet the re- 
quirements of any additional faculties they may 
possess. The structural organization of either pri- 
mal or later genera manifests certain special charac- 
teristics ; the pioneers of every t}-pe of embodied 
life being invariably of humble mentality and un- 
couth form, as befits their environments, while mem- 



34 



The Immortal Ego. 



bers of their later posterity are ennobled concurrent- 
ly with the improvement of material conditions sur- 
rounding them. Soul waves of intellectually differ- 
entiated entities are caused to flow toward the earth 
plane in every consecutive age of the life sustaining 
era, each wave being specially adapted to the ma- 
terial conditions extant on its arrival. Hence, an or- 
der or type that flourishes in one epoch is not in- 
herently qualified for embodiment in the same world 
at a later epoch. Whatever variation occurs in the 
inherent character of the elemental influx is follow^ed 
by a corresponding variation in the character of the 
life forms it generates; any numerical diminution in 
the generic wave is followed by a like diminution in 
the members of its materialized race, while termina- 
tion of the elemental wave of any type of beings 
necessarily bring to a close the embodied existence 
of that type. 



CHAPTER HI. 
PROCESSES OF EMBODIMENT OF THE ELEMENTAL. 

The elemental hath no conscious choice of worlds 
or epochs of time or of life orders through which it 
may germinate ; it is ruled by subtle forces in nature 
which take cognizance alike of planetary needs and 
of its special adaptations and which direct it unfail- 
ingly to an appropriate sphere of action. Its oppor- 
tunity of germination and transference from the un- 
conscious estate to the incipient phase of material 
life is afforded when the sexes of its affinities in the 



The Immortal Ego. 



35 



flesh have fruitful contact, and thenceforward to the 
end of its cycle in Pan-Elysium it is an intellect uall}' 
progressive being. The elemental thus passes the 
barrier that held it in the unconscious condition 
through a sexual rapprochement, and, whether the 
germ so established be quickly destroyed or suc- 
ceeds from the embryo to physical maturity, the ego 
proceeds onward through spiritual stages to Pan- 
Elysium. In attaining earthly embodiment the 
soul contends with uncertainties that have no re- 
petition in any other phase of the animative cycle ; for 
it may have success in the processes representing 
gestation, normal infancy, childhood and physical 
maturity, or it may only succeed in the first of these, 
and, through loss of its body, have to pass on to the 
spiritual plane without other experiences in life. Un- 
der normal conditions the elemental thus incarnat- 
ing will evolve for itself an organism in accord with 
its inherent endowments; abnormal parentive influ- 
ences, however, may interrupt embryonic unfold- 
ment and induce deformities that will to certain ex- 
tents thwart the inherent powers of the soul. 



CHAPTER IV. 
: IMPORTANCE OF THE LIFE PHASE OF THE ANIMATIVE CYCLE. 

Material birth ushers the eternal ego into con- 
scious existence, so that thenceforth to Pan-Elysium 
it pursues a courseof intellectual unfoldment. Emerg- 
ing from intellectual obscuration through the ger- 
minative process, it enters upon the activities of 



36 



The Immortal Ego, 



physical life, unless unsuccessful in maturing a body ; 
in which latter event it proceeds with the spiritual 
phases, reverting not to the elemental estate nor at- 
tempting re-incarnation. Though life is a compara- 
tively short epoch in the complete cyclic career, 
even if old age is attained, it hath features of great 
import to the individual soul; failure of embodied 
experience being of the nature of a misfortune that 
entails much arduous effort in spiritual spheres to 
compensate. The life stage discloses the soul's out- 
ermost projection from Pan-Elysium, the fulcrum from 
whence it turns and retraces lines it had traversed as 
an unconscious elemental — the retracing being dif- 
ferent from the going forth, in that it hath intervals 
of rest with pleasurable associations along the route. 
The soul being provisioned for a certain intellectual 
development during life, it follows that such individ- 
uals as achieve the normal term of embodied existence 
are advantaged to the extent of their worldly ex- 
perience above those of premature death. How- 
ever, while the attainment of old age in life by those 
who practice the virtues hath inestimable value to 
the soul, old age to the vicious may be unprofitable 
to the exent of their evil deeds and the base pro- 
pensities they have acquired. Through maintenance 
of the fleshly form and pursuit of the ordinary voca- 
tions and legitimate pleasures ot life the soul devel- 
opes a certain power and vigor of being and makes 
also such preparation for the spiritual plane as will 
enable its full appreciation of every source of joy 
there extant. While the greater proportion of souls 
passing the germinal process fail of physical matur- 



Tlie hninortal Ego. 



37 



ity, many not even reaching normal birth, it is pro- 
vided in nature that the materially successful are 
sufificiently numerous to guide and instruct the ma- 
terially unfortunate ones of their genera in the 
essentials of earth wisdom and the personel graces. 



CHAPTER V. 

PRE-ORDAINED AND VOLITIONAL POWERS OF THE SOUL 
DURING ITS CONSCIOUS CYCLE. 

In the progressive career of the soul from the 
material plane to Pan-Elysium, there is provision for 
individual happiness through the performance of an 
allotted order of duties and also provision for suff- 
ering through, inefficiency in or neglect of these 
duties. A soul may be pre-ordained, from inherent 
qualities,to the leadership or to the amusement or to 
the humble serving of its contemporaries, and for merit- 
oriously fulfilling its assigned functions there entails 
an adequate measure of happiness. Each soul hath 
its special fitness in the economy of nature and a 
mission which no other can in detail fulfil; if pro- 
pitious circumstances attend its incarnation and 
early development it may ascertain its special fitness 
during life and be able to inaugurate a felicitous 
karma for succeeding spiritual zones. Under un- 
propitious incarnation or misguiding influences in 
youth, the soul intellect may be thrown into a false 
channel, leading to misfortunes in life and entailing 
assiduous effort in the spiritual zones in order to 
harmonize the bodily activities and the thoughts 
with the conscientious instincts. The soul may 



38 



The Immortal Ego. 



traverse every zone from earth to Pan-Elysium and ac- 
quire little profitable wisdom or personal excell-ence, 
maintaining itself in social ranks inferior to its pre- 
ordained inheritance, or it may, through orderly ap- 
plication of its faculties, acquire intellectual excel- 
lences and successfully maintain itself the associate 
of those who are its superiors according to pre-or- 
dained inheritances. Thus, some reach the terminal 
Heaven with wisdom below the intents of their pri- 
mal inheritance and realize much sorrow as a conse- 
quence, while others reach Heaven with wisdom ex- 
ceeding the intents of their primal inheritance and 
find much joy as a consequence. Within these lines 
the finite soul is an instrument of the eternal will, 
with no choice of its career, as broadly determined 
in nature, but it hath a choice of happiness or sorrow 
through the merit or demerit of its labors, exalting 
or demeaning itself within its social order or range, 
of mentality. The soul inherently superior among 
its co-eternals and having by reason thereof a pre- 
disposition to the development of a body capaci- 
tated to express its qualities, is nevertheless measur- 
ably subject to the laws and conditions of materi- 
ality, especially during its germinal or embryonic 
stages, so that it is liable to both physical and men- 
tal defects. The soul inherently inferior and having 
a predisposition to the development of a body only 
capable of expressing inferior qualities, is not 
doomed on this account to an unworthy or unhappy 
career, being eligible for good or evil or joy or sor- 
row within its intellectual environment. It is or- 
dained to each individual ego to develop during 



Tilt Lnnwrtal Ego. 



39 



every cyclic incarnation a certain measure of intel- 
lectual power and influence among its co-eternals 
but the favorable influences that may attend one in- 
carnation an enable conformity with this inherent 
design may not attend another, so that in one 
earthh' life there is satisfaction with surrounding 
conditions and the personel achievements and in an- 
other there is dissatisfaction. The events or condi- 
ons of the animative cycle leave no permanent im- 
press upon the indigenous character of the ego, 
whose capacities are similar at the beginning of each 
of these stages of existence, and though with in- 
herent characteristics that aim measurably toward 
excellence or mediocrit}-. it hath at e\-ery generative 
epoch a temporary subjection to material influences 
that ma}' give it bodily perfections or imperfections 
or that may significantly affect it during the early 
period of life. The experiences of the lesser perma- 
nence during the cycle are such as pertain to^the 
ph}'sical or animalistic man; those of the greater 
permanence are such as pertain to the affectio.nal 
and intellectual man: which latter are qualities 
evolved or unfolded from the inner soul. A richly 
endowed individual ma\- in life create for himself a 
karma of appalling disorder, that although an ex- 
ternal and impermanent acquisition, will follow and 
harrass him m his spiritual existence; while the 
most lowly individual, through faithful pursuit of his 
pre-ordained functions and abstention from illusive 
vices, may create a karma of self approval and con- 
tent that will follow and bless him through his suc- 
ceeding spiritual existence. 



Book IV. 



Spheres, Conditions and Experiences that Apper= 
tain to the Spiritual Universe. 



CHAPTER I. 

CONDITIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE SOUL IN THE LOWER 
SPIRITUAL ZONE. 

Through death of the fleshy form the soul hath 
release from its material environment and it straight- 
way enters a zone wherein earthly conditions are 
spiritually reproduced. It finds spiritual lands and 
seas whose domains abound with spirit representa* 
tives of every species of plant and animal and of 
every type and condition of mankind. It finds scenic 
nature marked by numerous perfections not 
discoverable on the material plane while its com- 
panions likewise show super-mundane refinement 
and an absence of vulgar and repulsive traits. It 
finds surprising inventions and appliances that fill 
the glorified atmosphere with melodious sounds and 
rich perfumes and wondrous panoramic effects, and 
yet others of the nature of vehicles or air ships 
that freighted with pleasure seekers float majesti- 
cally over the spiritual landscape. It finds intelli- 
gent and ennobled spirits discussing noteworthy 
human achievements or addressing orderly gather- 



spiritual Spheres, Conditions and Experiences. 41 



ings or entertaining those seeking intellectual diver 
sion or recreation, while it observes also numerous 
places both of instruction and of worship to which 
the inhabitants alternately betake themselves . Close 
followed by the karma developed during earth life^ 
the soul thus enters the zone of spirit and according 
to attainments is impelled toward either pure and 
worthy thoughts and activities or toward the base 
and unworthy. Objects and scenes experi- 
enced during life have recurrence to the spiritual 
memory, bringing repetitions of their joyous or 
pathetic features, and erstwhile friends and intellec- 
tual affinities come forward with greetings. The 
features of this zone are interesting and joy giving 
in accordance with individual merit, or such fitness 
for their appreciation as results from virtues prac- 
tised on the material plane. Thus opportunities 
abound for a series of sociabilities, studies and bene- 
ficent labors and the soul finds itself happy, primar- 
ily to the extent of its past virtues and secondarily 
according to its efficiency in the duties of its new 
surroundings. 



CHAPTER II. 

CON'DITIONS AND EXPERIENXES OF THE SOUL IN THE 
INTERMEDIATE SPIRITUAL ZONE. 

When the soul hath existed its allotted epoch in 
the first spiritual zone from earth, it is transferred, 
by a process analogous to physical death, to another 
realm w^herein it finds many of its former conscious 



42 spiritual Spheres, Conditiojis and Experiences, 



relationships repeated on a new and elaborate sys- 
tem. It finds the souls of every animal type and the 
spiritual reproductions of plant life enhancing the 
interest of the scene with their presence, while of 
humankind, even those that pursued a disorderly or 
vicious course upon the earth are found to have over- 
come their evil tendencies and to have developed 
joy-giving accomplishments. The intellectually ad- 
vanced soul comes in contact with numerous scenes 
and experiences having no comparison to earthly 
phenomena, finding in its immediate surroundings 
an harmonious and philosophically pleasing struc- 
tural order, while the leading features of far distant 
regions of the material and spiritual universe are 
brought within its vision by skilful appliances. It 
discerns the relationship of all the suns of the universe 
to each other, as they conjointly obey the impul- 
sions of a central directive power, or it may follow 
the potential virtues that stream forth from sun to 
planet to their radiative source and fathom the 
mechanism of their production. It may now 
ascertain in detail the history of the material world 
and trace the evolution of its varied plant and ani- 
mal types without delving for fossil relics, as such 
information requires on the earth plane, while the 
exact records of every race and nation of men are 
also within easy access. For the sportive and sym- 
pathetic pleasures it finds ample provision; every 
circle of intellec'tual affinities occupying their 
allotted spheres and secure from annoyance of those 
toward whom they feel no social attraction. 



spiritual Spheres, Conditions and Experiences. 43 

CHAPTER III. 

CONDITIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE SuUL IN THE UPPER 
SPIRITUAL ZONE. 

Oil reaching the upper spiritual zone of the Earth 
the soul is encompassed about by scenes and con- 
ditions of supernal beauty and perfection, and, hav- 
ing by this time, if not abnormally obtuse, become 
possessed of a high degree of moral purity and in- 
tellectual excellence, it is enabled to fully enjoy 
every feature of this manifestation of nature's uni- 
verse. If yet possessed of aspiration for some un- 
attamed grace of person or practiced art or know- 
ledge of the abstruse, there are abundant facilities 
for its rapid progress in the line desired. If ambi- 
tious for special skill in the higher astronomy of the 
universe, it may proceed to explore and ascertain 
not only the material outlines of distant suns and 
planets but also the superincumbent halo's of their 
spiritual zones; or it may journey forth intellectu- 
ally to immeasurably distant recesses in heavenly 
space and view in detail the hosts of stellar uni- 
verses as ranged in their orderly and eternal system. 
In various concerns it discovers facilities for self im- 
provement, so that if hitherto neglectful of oppor- 
tunities and only through the startling magnificence 
of its present surroundings awakened to the need of 
some creditable possession, it may even thus late in 
the cycle proceed to earn its way to favored realms 
and associations and to secure specific virtues that 
will give joy in the terminal Heaven. In the higher 
sphere of the zone the soul may have acquaintance 



44 Spiritual Spheres^ Conditions and Experie?ices, 



with the Earth's finite Governor and with the great 
and worthy minds who form his counsellors, and it 
morever discerns the peculiar and beneficent in- 
fluences which these high functionaries exert upon 
the spiritual and the material world. 



CHAPTER IV. 
CO.NDITIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE SOUL IN PAN-ELYSIUM. 

In the realms of the great central world of the 
sub-universe the soul finds an inheritance of personel 
power and facilities for happiness according to the 
karma it hath developed for itself during the con- 
scious period of its cycle. It finds the soul entities 
of every planet world streaming into this central 
system, and, though embracing types and races rang- 
ing from those of the primal orders that have consti- 
tuted the inhabitants of immature planets to the 
more perfected intelligences of worlds of the millen- 
ial stage, all are perceived to maintain themselves 
with true angelic decorum. Every member of the 
constantly impouring multitudes is seen to discover 
its natural affinities and to instinctively approach 
the sphere for which it is specially adapted. The 
hitherto progressive soul, with a full karma of know- 
ledge and benevolence, is found beaming with holy 
ecstacy from its nearness to and constant commun- 
ion with the divine principles in nature. If having 
earned potential virtues in each preceeding zone of 
existence, it finds here abundant time for medita- 



spiritual Spheres, Conditioiis and Expe7'iences. 45 



tion upon the varied glories of the universe it hath 
traversed and likewise for the pursuance of what- 
ever pastimes its faculties may incline toward. 
After experiencing the merited glories of this, the 
ultimate Paradise, the soul passes into an appointed 
sphere and enters upon a state of entrancement dur- 
ing which the enriched mentality of its progressive 
cycle hath gradual dissipation. In this process it is 
for a period enraptured with dreamy meditations 
upon the joys and achievements of its past cycle, 
then, as if falling into a deep slumber, the memory 
is obliterated, the intellect obscured and as an un- 
conscious elemental it is finally engulfed in a vital 
wave that bears it with myriads of others upon a 
new c\xle to some material world. 



CHAPTER V. 

CERTAIN PHASES AND EXPERIENCES OF THE SOUL IN ITS 
SPIRITUAL CAREER. 

If when entering upon the spiritual phase of exis- 
tence the soul finds itself in possession of a karma 
of honest energy and benevolence, it enjoys a favor- 
able self-estimate and contentment of mind, but, if 
realizing its karma base or unworthy, it experiences 
fear or uncertainty of mind and seeks to hide its 
defects from its fellow beings. On reflection upon 
its career in life it hath satisfaction in its deeds of 
virtue, which in their outward effects imbue the 
spiritual countenance with a joyous expression, 
while for its wrongdoing it hath humiliation of mind 



46 spiritual Spheres, Cojiditions a?id Experiences. 

and a countenance distressed and disfigured as from 
a virulent disease. If in life it hath been devoted to 
benevolent pursuits and to the acquirement of know- 
ledge of the truths of nature, it finds ennobled and 
cultured companionship and an inheritance in 
spheres where learning is held in high estimate, but, 
if in life it hath labored for naught save to gratify 
the common lusts or evil propensities, it finds its 
companionship and the conditions of its spiritua 
sphere short removed from those of its ex- 
perience on the material plane. Throughout the 
spiritual cycle the soul hath association with the 
learned and ennobled of its genera or with those of 
a lesser refinement or with the most lowly accord- 
ing to its own intellectual and moral status, for, al- 
though these varied classes may inhabit a common 
spiritual region, their contact is so regulated by nature 
that each hath companionship of its own quality and 
comparative isolation from its opposites. The soul 
becoming freed from the grossness and impurities 
of the flesh is eligible to new hopes and aspirations 
and refined joys; finding however, upon each succes- 
sive plane a resource of pleasure in the memory of 
its every benevolent act and instructive experience. 
There being no premature or accidental deaths here 
as upon the material plane, but a duly measured 
epoch allotted to each zone, the spirit, though 
guided for a time by the peculiar mental impetus it 
gained in life, hath yet such mastery of its career as 
to be able to employ its time wisely or unwisely tc 
ts own welfare or injury. A foretaste of para-nir- 
vana is possible in every zone of the conscious cycle, 



spiritual Spheres, Conditions and Experiences. 47 

but the soul may deprive itself of or limit such bliss, 
as it may impoverish its general inheritance in Pan- 
Elysium, through persistent grossness and failure to 
develop tranquilizing karma. During all the epochs 
following material birth the soul hath a constant 
approach toward the universal Heaven, realizing 
premonitory nirvana's in each zone until it enters 
Pan-Elysium, when begins the true or para-nirvana 
whose joys, though a common inheritance for man, 
are measured in their intensity by individual merit. 
Pan-Elysium brings to the soul the ideal nirvana, pre- 
monitions of which have engendered sublime con- 
ceptions and urged its worthiest energies, and the 
incomparable glories there prove that nature hath 
given naught of hope or aspiration impossible of 
eventual fulfilment. Thus the material plane as an 
outer extremity of Deific elements, and the ph}'sical 
estate as the inferior conscious condition of the soul, 
afford functions necessarily crude and joys less 
perfect than those of any succeeding phase of the 
cycle; while Pan-Eh'sium as an inner nucleus of Deific 
elements, and the soul reaching it being in its most 
perfect condition of intellectual unfoldment, the 
functions here are most refined and the joys the 
most perfect that the finite being can realize. 



CHAPTER VP 

SOUL BTERCOMMUMON BETWEEN THE MATERIAL AXD 
SPIRITUAL PLANES, 

Conditions subsist in nature for the intePligent 
contact of embodied and disembodied souls, either 



48 Spiritual Spheres, Co7iditio7is and Experiences. 

after a process enabling thought germs of the one 
to approach and influence the other or after a pro- 
cess enabling audible or visible presence. The sym- 
pathetic bond of kinship or of concurrent thought 
may attract an intelligence from one plane of existence 
toward an intelligence upon another plane and un- 
der such rapprochement the motives of the one be- 
come temporarily the motives of the other ; and yet 
each may be unconscious of the character or person- 
ality of its invisible affinity. Each human mind of ar- 
duous purposes and pursuits attracts to its aid poten- 
tialities from invisible minds which enhance the possi- 
bilities of desired achievement, while it may in turn 
render a similar service to those with whom it thus 
communes. Such intercortimunion is common to 
both high and low orders of intellect and the matter 
communicated may be either of a refined or impor- 
tant or base or unimportant nature. Conscious 
intercommunion with spirits is ordinarily restricted 
to individuals abnormally clairvoyant or impressional 
while unconscious or endemic intercommunion 
obtains with every condition of mind. The one 
phase is of necessity rarely manifested while the 
other interblends with the common flow of thought, 
which, vibrating imperceptibly through the atmos- 
pheric media, rebounds from one mind to another 
irrespective of plane or embodied or disembodied 
estate. Thus a soul in the flesh may be in close 
mental contact with a disembodied affinity and re- 
ceiving ideas and opinions upon some especial sub- 
ject, or possibly questioning intelligently while the 
baser consciousness is entranced or stilled in sleep, 



Spiritital Spheres, Conditions and Experiences. 49 

and at the same time, the spirit mind concerned 
may be equally ignorant of the source of its peculiar 
interest and inspiration. While this obscure flow of 
thought nuclei intimately interconnects the mental- 
ity of the two planes, it is only the few exceptionally 
talented or abnormally conditioned minds who- 
have any true appreciation of the souls of any plane 
orzone save the one they inhabit. As nature hath 
ordered it, the soul embodied may not sense the spiri- 
tual estate nor may the soul disembodied sense the 
material estate , the latter, however, hath positive 
knowledge and is consequently in no doubt as to 
m.aterial existence while the former may be ignor- 
ant of or may entertain grave doubts of spiritual ex- 
istence. Conscious intercommunion is commonly 
provided against by barriers that entail meagre and 
unsatisfactory sequences to human efforts for exact 
spiritual information; which discloses a proper safe- 
guard in nature, preventing the embodied and dis- 
embodied from becoming unprofitably engrossed 
with each other. 



CHAPTER VII. 
SPIRIT INTEREST IN AND CAPACITY OF INFLUENTIXG MANKIND. 

The soul transferred through bodily death to the 
spiritual plane may retain yet a solicitude for earthly 
concerns or for individuals, which for a time out- 
weighs every attraction of its immediate surround- 
ings and leads it to the natural channels of inter- 



50 Spiritual Spheres, Co7iditions and Experie?ices. 

communication between the two worlds. . Under 
such incentives the soul may devote its efforts to the 
furtherance of religious or political principles or to 
the moral quickening of individual minds, if bene- 
ficently actuated, or to the confusion of religious or 
political principles or the basely impulsive excita- 
tion of individual minds, if maleficently actuated. 
The philanthropic soul may even seek to bring about 
propitious marriages that elementals of inherent no- 
bility may be attracted and incarnated for leaders 
and teachers of some special race or nation, or it 
may employ itself to frustrate marrriage between the 
intellectually unsuited, if conceiving such interfer- 
ence to forestall the birth of the ingenitely vicious 
and inferior. It may endeavor a mental stimulus to 
leaders and teachers, urging them to advocate new 
or reformatory measures or inciting them to firmness 
when beset by popular impetuosities and prejudices. 
It may strive to influence persons indulging the 
passional appetites, seeking their moral or religious 
awakening, or it may have yearnings for nearness to 
those who were sympathetically allied to it in life. 
While its power over physical man hath such limi- 
tations in nature as to prevent undue or meddlesome 
interference in his affairs or the exercise of any 
wholly selfish or impropitious influence, the intel- 
lectual energy it exerts on his behalf is never lost, 
for it's thought trains impelled through space by 
force of will must needs act potentially upon many 
other minds, though possibly not successfully upon 
the ones they were especially directed toward. The 
inestimable value of proper safeguards in nature 



spiritual Spheres, Co?iditio?is and Experiences. 5 1 

against direct spiritual influence is apparent when it 
is taken into consideration how a disembodied soul 
might exert a confusing or otherwise injurious influ- 
ence, even when actuated by no evil intent but merely 
through being imperfectly informed or through un- 
schooled faculties or a blind desire to profit its earthly 
kindred regardless of the effects upon others. Hence, 
whatever the character of spirit interest in man. the 
natural obstacles that interpose between the two 
phases of existence tend to lessen the force 
of all conscious or intentional influence, while 
that which redounds to the spirit so employ- 
ing its energies may be good or evil according to the 
motives and the manner of its activities, as 
a man might conceivably be affected through em- 
ploying himself in matters pertaining to the spiritual 
plane. 



CHAPTER VHI. 

THE COXDITIOXS OF ELECTIUX TO SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP. 

The spirit leader or director of intellectual acti- 
vities invariabl}' owes its appointment to its own in- 
trinsic merit and not to any earthly heritage or to 
arbitrary or individual favors. The conditions of its 
attainm.ent of such position differ from those preva- 
lent on earth, in that there is neither dependence 
upon the will of the multitude nor upon any finite 
superior ; the measure of wisdom and the power of 
influencing and directing the thoughts and actions 
of others, through the reception and outflow of ideas, 



52 spiritual Spheres, Conditions and Experiences. 

being the essentials to spiritual leadership. With a cer- 
tain predestination to leadership in every animative 
cycle, it hath ultimaterealization of its function, even 
though misfortunes may have hindered the unfold- 
ment of inherent gifts during earth life. It finds its 
specific rank defined by its relative merits and on no 
occasion encounters the unpropitious phase frequently 
observable among men wherein an official or ruler is 
inferior in the qualities of leadership to some of his 
subordinates or adherents. Thus, the soul ordained 
in nature for leadership, apprehending its normal 
destiny soon after its advent upon the spiritual 
plane, and, aware of the popular enthusiasm for in- 
dividuality and for efficiency in office, forthwith pro- 
ceeds to develop the external or expressive qualifica- 
tions and to evolve doctrines that will improve the 
methods or entice the thoughts of its fellows into 
healthful and profitable channels. 



Book v. 



Ruling Faculties and Traits of the Soul During 
its Corporeal Existence. 



CHAPTER 1. 

RELATION OF THE SOUL TO THE FLESHLY BODY. 

The finite soul during the life phase of its cycle 
of activities permeates and supports a material body, 
which it utilizes as an instrument in the expression of 
its inherent powers, in the performance of essential 
functions in nature and in the attainment of intellec- 
tual strength and refinement. In the structural order 
of its bod}' there is maintained a proportion of gross 
matter, serviceable as a tractile intermedium in its 
contact with material nature and also certain re- 
fined and subtle elements permeating and serving to 
connect the organic constituents with the perceptive 
and rational mind. Its more subtle body elements 
are employed to convey vital energies from the in- 
ner resources of the mind to the functional organs, 
to which they are accustomed to flow freely in con- 
formity with the impulsions of dominant faculties. 
In its intellectual manifestation, the embodied soul 
displays various faculties whose influences diametri- 
cally oppose each other, and to the relative promi- 
nence of these divergent principles in the mind is 
due the personality as distinguishable from other 



54 Ruling Faculties a?id Traits 'of the Embodied Soul. 

souls. Each incarnate faculty is constituted to ex- 
ert a certain impulsion and attraction upon the sub- 
tle energies of the body and to produce localized 
vigor, which may, under some abnormal constramt, 
become so acute in the function concerned as to 
cause it to appropriate to itself an undue share, thus 
unhinging the normal balance in the bodily system 
and inducing various faults and weaknesses. The 
faculties constituting the mental structure, like unto 
the components of the fleshly form, display both 
gross and refined qualities ; some being intimately con- 
nected with physical organs and incentive of appetites 
or passions while others transcend physical nature and 
take cognizance of the purely intellectual and spiri- 
tual. Hence, through the sensorial faculties, the in- 
ner spirit transmits impulsions to and receives infor- 
mation from its bodily organs, in like manner as 
through faculties connective with the purely intellec- 
tual it receives inspiration from and intercommuni- 
cates with infinite and spiritual nature. The normal 
trend of the intellect, as conforming to the inherent 
proclivities of the ego, may be thwarted or turned 
aside by accidents or injuries to the body or by the 
overruling power of some especial faculty that has 
beeYi developed beyond its legitimate bounds or 
through associations or teachings or habits while 
the mind is yet immature in its conscious volition. 
The traits outwardly manifested by the soul during 
life may in these instances fail to give a true indica- 
tion of the intrinsic qualities of the ego; the ment- 
ality acting through the flesh deviates from its 
intentional bearings and assumes a temporary 



Rtiling Faculties and Traits of tJie Embodied Soul. 5 5 



character that is essentially false and superficial and 
between which and the inner self there is constant 
strife. 



CHAPTER IL 

NORMAL AND ABNORMAL CONDITIONS OF THE NUTRITIONAL 
APPETITES. 

The faculties of the soul that manifest their powers 
through the nutritional appetites are normally consti- 
tuted to urge upon the consciousness theespecial needs 
of the bodily organs under their several influences. 
If by any unfavorable process these faculties have 
deranged their physical organism or rendered them- 
selves abnormal in their activity, they become dis- 
posed to harrass the mind with inordinate cravings, 
demanding that which morbidly excites physical 
sensation. In their ordained activity these faculties 
are engaged with the appropriate nourishment and 
sustenance of the corporeal system and in this em- 
ploy they react upon the consciousness with whole- 
some pleasures. In abnormal activities they en- 
gender brief and impotent sensuous excitations 
which are followed by bodily weaknesses and 
desires of evil import. Through maintenance of the 
normal appetites the body receives from the func- 
tional organs joy giving energy and the mind hath 
constant cheerfulness and hope. Through mainten- 
ance of deranged and abnormal appetites the body 
is filled with strange or oppressive sensations and 



56 l\iilin<>; I'iK idlics and Irdits of I lie l^inhodicd Soul . 

tlic mind iinhiicd witli iiK^rhid fancies and fits (d re- 
morse. Through gratification of the normal a[)i)e- 
tites there cnsnes a consciousness of having |)crform- 
ed legitimate duty and tiie mind is fit fcjr meditative, 
studious or social activities. Throu^di jjanderin^ to 
the abnormal appetites there ensues an accusing 
consciousness and the mind is unfit either for [)lea- 
surahlc mechtati(>»n upon its own concerns or lor re- 
lishing" or inspiring.; in others the beneficent social 



CHAP'I VM 111. 
NOKMAI. AM) AliNOkMAL SHXrALITY. 

I'he sexual faculty dis[)lays a class of emotions 
and passions that incite chivalrous impulses audself 
sacrificing devoticjn or base and morbid |)ro[jensities, 
accordingly as the natural chastity or an acquired un- 
chastity is predominant in the mind. It is em[)Owered, 
under moral and continent restraints, to animate and 
im[jel the mind toward heroic and admirable deeds, 
or, under base and uncontinent license, to morbidly 
inflame the various passions, to consume the vital 
forces of the body and \a) distract the attention from 
the common duties and obli^ation.s of life. The 
effects of its chaste inlluence are manifest in the 
amative and parentive affections, that impart trW)ody 
and mind t ran^jiiili/.in^^ joys and a disposition to crjn- 
tentment in the practical or laborious routine ul life ; 
its unchaste excitatirjn is ff;l lowed by ea^er [jassion- 



Riding Faculties and Traits of die EuibGditd Soid 57 

al lusts or fierce jealousies or distinctively \'icious 
propensities. Hence, sexuality, while inherently pure 
and joy inspiring as a normal feature of the soul's 
functional system, is subject to common la^vs of the 
bodv org"anism and is liable, through diversion from 
legitimate purports, to unchaste or unfavorable in^ 
centives which once engrafted in the intellectual 
karma may require assiduous and long sustained 
effort to eradicate. 



CHAPTER IV. 

yORMAL AND ABNORMAL CuMBATIVEVESS, 

The faculty that in life expresses the bellicose 
impulses is primarih- intentioned to the defense of 
the individual rio"hts and belon^-ino-s, but. beino" sus- 

o 00-0 

ceptible of disproportionate development in the mind 
or perversion from its legitimate intents, it may be- 
com.e incitive of grossly imprudent, aggressive or 
vicious thought or action. When maintained subor- 
dinate to morality and reason, it impels to positive 
and vigorous measures and to constancy in any en- 
terprise undertaken. Whe^n not maintained subor- 
dinate to- morality and reason, it becomes within the 
mind a smoldering fire that may suddenly, and from 
trivial cause, break forth in unseemly fury or engen- 
der veno;eful thought or stealthy criminality ; outrag- 
ing thereby the finer sympathies and inducing 
unwholesome agitation of \-arious faculties and or- 
gans of the mind and body. Under corrective disci- 



58 RiLli7ig Faculties a?id Traits of the Embodied Sotd. 

pline it imparts steadfast courage and dignity ot 
bearing to its possessor. Undisciplined it imparts a 
taciturn or fretful temper which not only irritates and 
exhausts the vital powers but so unhinges the intel- 
lect that there results faltering and cowardice when 
there is proper occasion for firmness or bravery. 
Under efficient control it allies itself with justiceand 
benevolence and when called upon to employ force 
it urges no cruelty toward a thwarted or conquered 
opponent. When inefficiently controlled it imbues 
themind withhatred and desire of revenge, as, not con- 
tent with subduing an opponent, it seeks his abject 
humiliation or destruction. Thus, when the soul in 
its earthly career maintains such intelligent govern- 
ance over its basic energies that the belligerent ele- 
ment instils a measured force and animation to the 
mind, in the defense of doctrines, rights or posses- 
sions, it realizes in the faculty a worthy and sustain- 
ing power in the life struggle. 



CHAPTER V. 

CAPACITIES OF THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS, 

The faculty expressive of moral consciousness is 
functioned to exert an influence that overawes the 
baser qualities of mind and constrains the thoughts 
toward virtue. In its peculiar mental surveillance 
it intimates an approval of the chaste and benefi- 
cent and a condemnation of the unchaste and injuri- 
ous. Its influence imbues the character with faithful 



Riding Faculties and Traits of the Embodied Soul. 59 

and trustworthy traits and affords a sustaining power 
to the mind that enables successful resistance to evil 
temptings. Through its activity a barrier is provid- 
ed against the execution of unworthy motives, 
while through its inactivity license is given to evil 
indulgences, and fickleness and unreliableness of 
character come to possess no terrors for the mind. It 
awes the physical man into submission to the dictates 
of religion, and, to the inner perceptions, surrounds 
every object and principle in nature with purity or 
righteous intents. It is when its powers are dormant 
in the mind that the anim^al propensities exceed their 
proper bounds and every object and motive in nature 
takes on a base or selfish aspect. In its normal ac- 
tivity it affords the mind prudential or timely intui- 
tions enabling the employment of needful restraints 
upon the baser impulses, but, with its powers wea- 
kened or obscured, the mind is readily swayed by the 
sordid and passional nature so that actions damag- 
ing to the self esteem and to the reputation may be 
committed. Hence, the moral consciousness holds 
the office of a personal deity that makes its approval 
contingent upon the righteousness of the motives 
and activities; and accordingly as its demands are 
complied with or ignored there is resultant joy or 
sorrow in the mind. 



6o Rilling Faculties and T^^aits of the Embodied Som 
CHAPTER VI. 

THF FACULTY OF SPIRITUAL COGNITION. - 

A certain power inherent in the soul enables cog- 
nition of the impalpable or purely spiritual in nat- 
ure, and this power or faculty may unfold its quali- 
ties in individual minds during earth life, so that 
there are frequent or occasional visions or impres- 
sions of entities, elements or conditions which are 
ordmarily obscured from mankind. Under the in- 
fluence of this faculty the inner perceptiveness 
transcends the common physical limits andproceeds 
to investigate the spiritual universe, though that 
which is then experienced may impress the mind as 
being merely an ephemeral dream or phantasy of 
the imagination. When, however, the phenomena 
it reveals hath the import of reality to the mind, the 
faculty may be permitted to enjoin the will to its 
purposes and so subdue the physical organism as to 
enable the soul's temporary escape from its material 
envelope and its entrance upon the spiritual plane. 
Alhough it is a faculty that is in a measure common 
to humanity, it hath rarely such development as to 
attract the serious concern of its possessor, being in 
most instances stirred to activity by some event 
shocking or disturbing the moral sense, the affec- 
tions, cherished habits or purposes and occasionally 
portending changes in the line of thought or manner 
of life. Like unto other powers of the mental 
superstructure, it may have a favorable or an un- 
favorable import, depending mainly upon the con- 
ditions of its development in the order of the intel- 



Ruling Faculties cuid Traits of the Embodied Soul. Gi 

lect with which it is associated. When constitu- 
tionally over prominent or intentionally cultured in 
a mind, it may so fascinate or absorb the attention 
as to cause neglect of essential concerns in life, or be 
employed to confuse or mislead others from their 
worldly affairs or religious thought. In accordance 
wiih its normal intents, it yields the spiritual revela- 
tions or the insight necessary to confirm belief in reli- 
gion and the spiritual futurity of the race, and, under 
phenomenal activity it affords such convictions 
as incite philosophic speculations and the aspiration 
to instruct and lead others. In ultimate effect it 
serves to draw the human mind away from cravings 
of the fiesh or too earnest absorption in purely mate- 
rial affairs and to direct attention to the future well- 
being of the soul. 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE VOLITIONAL uR WILL POWER OF THE INTELLECT. 

A directive and regulative i^'ill maintains in 
each coherent mind, to which both the intellectual 
and corporeal faculties, in their normal state, ac- 
knowledge obedience. The will discloses no espec- 
ial discernment or partialty for good or for evil but 
is essentially a force that unites the prominent fac- 
ulties upon a purpose, and, being responsive alike to 
motives of every kind, the direction it becomes hab- 
ituated to take virtually decides the measure of 
tranquility and health the mind and body sustains. 



62 Ruli7ig Faculties and Traits of the Embodied Soid. 

It is a faculty of the mind upon which great respon- 
sibility rests, for with it depends the subordination 
of the basic impulses and the direction of the ambi- 
tion toward attainments that bring individual pros- 
perity and happiness. Under favorable cultivation 
it IS enabled to restrain and discipline the impulses 
and passions and to engender the stability of pur- 
pose or fidelity to principles which characterises 
every successful or estimable individual. When propi- 
tiously exercised, it directs the thoughts into 
selected channels regardless of predisposed tenden- 
cies, allotting to each organ and function of the 
body a proportioned season of activity and of re- 
straint, so that there is at all times an equable bal- 
ance of energies. Aided by chaste and religious 
motives it safeguards the inferior bodily functions 
from such activities as develop sensual and dis- 
orderly propensities, while it urges forward the 
qualities of intellect that elevate and ennoble the 
individual among his fellow beings. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
REACTIONARY PORTENTS AND POSSIBILTriES OF KARMA. 

The earthly mind, while mayhap not able to identify 
any single thought or idea as of its own origination, 
becomes nevertheless the centre of an exclusive 
stratum of intelligence wherein abounds all the 
thoughts, fancies and desires that have ever im- 
pressed its consciousness. These karmic impress- 



Riil'Dig Faculties and Traits of the Embodied Soul. 63 

ions, as if ranged upon given cyclic orbits, return at 
certain intervals and reproduce upon the memory 
the conditions of their first experience. Each and 
every soul, although having as an eternal heritage a 
predisposition toward certain motives and activities, 
is nevertheless peculiarly susceptible to the mental 
impressions im.posed b}' associations and teachings 
during the youthful period of life, the which tend to 
surround the mind with a karmic destiny that may 
be either harmonious with or antagonistic to the in- 
herent disposition. A thought or incident once 
securing lodgement in the karmic system thus con- 
trives to affix a peculiar impress that reacts upon the 
memory whatever sentiments, emotions or passions 
were connected with its original inception. In re- 
ceiving these recurrent thoughts and incentives, the 
mind may have full remembrance of their former 
impress, or, they may appear as new inspirations or 
covert temptings according to their beneficent or 
maleficent character. The mind experiences some 
of these thought repetitions at distant intervals of 
time while others seem continuously within easy call 
and acting as alert and responsive servants, as if they 
possessed cycles of different duration or were meas- 
urably dependent upon certain conditions and in- 
fluences to effectively impress their return. The 
thought currents formulated by the youthful intel- 
lect thus tend to a life heritage, the reversal or 
change of which requires new scenes and influences 
or a supreme effort of will. The karma having been 
established, obtains such control over the mind as to 
prevent sudden change in the habitual thought ; an\- 



64 Riding Faadties and Traits of the Embodied Soid. 

reformatory effort being at once productive of dis- 
order among the faculties chiefly concerned. Hence, 
there obtains a certain dependence of the mind upon 
the karma it hath established, so that for the rectify- 
ing of vicious or dishonorable methods there needs be 
a struggle with each accustomed propensity or train 
of thought as it attempts to repeat itself, and coeval 
therewith the creation of new intellectual impres- 
sions and occupations, engendering the new and 
desirable karma. 



Book 



Man as a Morally Responsible Being. 



CHAPTER I. 

ESSENTIAL OBLIGATIONS L\ LIFE AND THE REWARD OF 
EFFICIENTLY MEETING THEM. 

To compensate his appointment in nature as the 
most noble of organized beings, man is ordained to 
the performance of a series of bodily exertions, to 
the unfolding and refinement of his intellect and to 
the perpetuation and improvement of his kind upon 
the material plane. His chief material duties are 
performed in the pursuit of the functional desires 
and intellectual ambitions ; when his developed reason 
discloses to him the intrinsic and legitimate purports of 
adding to his possessions, to giving in marriage and 
even to certain boisterous pleasures, then he hath per- 
fect assurance and joy in all his occupations and pas- 
times. In deriving his necessaries from the animal, 
vegetable and mineral kingdoms, man hath need 
to expel the morbid waters from the lowlands, to 
encroach his fields upon the desert wastes and to 
bring e\'ery mountain and plain under his dominion. 
In the building of habitations and in his devices for 
the collection and transport of his goods, he hath 
need to utilize the powers of every river and sea and 



66 



Man as a Morally Responsible Being. 



likewise to enjoin the aid of various subtle currents 
and gases of the atmosphere. His natural obliga- 
tions, having this perfect accord with the inherent 
capacities, it follow^s that if his order be lowly or his 
physique vigorous, he hath especial enjoyment in 
battling with the elements or in manual labors, or, if 
intellectually acute, he hath especial enjoyment in 
learning, in personal culture or in mechanical skill, 
while if endowed with the qualities of sagehood, he 
delights in searching for and expounding the esoteric 
or underlying principles in nature. 



CHAPTER H. 

REACTIONARY EFFECTS OF PROPITIOUS AND OF UNPROPITIOUS 
THOUGHT UPON THE MIND AND BODY. 

Through chaste and honorable thought man be- 
comes intellectually ennobled while his body is 
coursed with healthful emotions ; through unworthy 
or voluptuous thought he becomes intellectually 
imbecile w^hile his body is filled with impurities and 
insatiable cravings. Through religious and intel- 
ligently applied thought man becomes acquainted 
with his superior powers and possibilities and is 
guided toward the development of qualities that will 
enhance his status with his fellow men; through irre- 
ligious and frivolous thought the intellect is con- 
fused and beclouded so that both his spiritual and 
his worldly interests suffer thereby. Through an 
orderly and considerate line of thought there is both 



Mail as a Morally Responsible Being. 67 



an assurance of functional health and a receptive- 
ness to religious teachings; through a disorderly and 
voluptuous line of thought, physically injurious 
vices are induced and the mind acquires an aversion 
or want of receptiveness to religious teachings. 
Through disciplined and sanctified thought the 
mind is conditioned . for sustaining with fortitude 
every bereavement or cause of anxiety ; through 
passional and sensual thought the mind is rendered 
weak and uncertain and fit to be easily unbalanced 
under agitating influences. Humianitarian or intel- 
lectually progressive thought attracts the inspiration 
of beneficent spirit principles; as one benevolent or 
learned mind is known to attract another of like 
qualifications; evil designed or vagrant thought at- 
tracts unregenerate spirit principles as carrion is 
known to attract creatures of repulsive appetite. 
Thus, thoughts that may be classed as benevolent 
and practical presage health of body and mind and 
form the essentials of happiness, while thoughts 
that may be classed as vicious and impractical pres- 
age bodily and mental ills — each kind being measur- 
ably within the province of the individual volition to 
entertain or avert. 



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Mail as a Morally Responsible Being. 



CHAPTER III. 

REACTIONARY EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS AND WORTHY- AND OF 
IRRELIGIOUS AND UNWORTHY METHODS. 

Through prayerfulness and solicitude for the wel- 
fare of others, man finds himself in near proximity 
to infinite love and his heart is filled with joyous 
emotion. Through neglect of prayerfulness and indif- 
ference to the w^elfare of others man finds himself 
distant from infinite love and his heart is filled with 
harrowing fears or evil incentives. Through pious 
meditation and a considerate use of his faculties, he 
finds himself beneficently inspired and realizes a 
constant unfoldment of moral and spiritualizing 
power. Through unholy meditation and a base or 
purely selfish use of his faculties, he finds himself 
evilly inspired and possessed of a contempt for vir- 
tue and an infatuation for vice. Through conscien- 
tious manipulation of his emotional and passional 
elements, that they may fulfil their normal intents 
in life, he finds himself possessed of a fervid and 
venerative enthusiasm and in accord with infinite 
law. Through frequent 3delding to the passional 
elements, so that they are diverted from their nor- 
mal intents in life, he finds himself lukewarm toward 
religion and astray from all belief in or rational 
conception of the infinite. Through vigilant self- 
surviellance and the timely restraint of every untoward 
or disorderly impulse of the flesh, he finds 
himself filled with hopeful energy and with a con- 
stant relish for the duties and pleasures of life. 
Through laxity in self-surveillance and the frequent 



Mail as a Morally Responsible Being. 69 



submission to impulses of the flesh, he finds him- 
self encompassed by base and insistent passions and 
his bodily and mental energies improfitably con- 
sumed. Through cultivation of forbearance and 
exact justice toward others and conscientious pre- 
meditations upon his motives and enterprises, he 
finds himself possessed of clearness and precision in 
his material concerns and of an intelligent discrim- 
ination between right and vvTong. Through intoler- 
ance toward others or failure to meditate upon the 
possible effects of his motives or actions, he finds 
himself confused in his reckonings and slow to ap- 
prehend the distinctions between right and wrong. 
Through inaintanance of what his higher faculties 
are enabled to perceive as virtuous and worthy, 
man may have constant satisfaction with himself 
and be free from regrets and every basely agitat- 
ing influence. Through failure to concern himself 
with and to practice what his higher faculties are 
qualified to perceive as virtuous and worth}', man 
may become disaffected with himself and with all 
his surroundings and be continuously afflicted with 
regrets and with insatiable desires. 



CHAPTER IV. 

SELF REFORMATION AND CuNQUEST OF THE PASSIONS. 

If improper indulgences have been persisted in 
until intellectual control is weakened and abnor- 
mal propensities or inclinations toward base thought 



70 



Man as a Morally Re spo visible Bemg. 



are established, then is there need of reflection up- 
on past actions and motives and of prayerful ap- 
peals to the infinite for inspiration and spiritual 
guidance. If the morally awakened mind finds it- 
self infatuated with base indulgences, delighting in 
the dissemination of evil knowledge or filled with 
enmity toward the righteous, then is there need of 
earnest and long continued religious effort to over- 
come the evil traits and to attain qualities which 
the highest intellectual reasoning approves of. If 
the incentives and impulses common to youthful in- 
nocence have through excesses become abnormal 
and immoral yearnings and the mind so infatuated 
with baseness that there is no joy in the society 
of the chaste or in acts of benevolence, then is 
there need of consistent action by the governing 
and volitional intellect toward a complete reversal 
of former thoughts and habits. In the process of 
subduing incontinent passions and making their 
powers subservient to moral and religious princi- 
ples, there obtains a compensative strength of will 
that aids the mind in surmounting the common 
obstacles to a career of righteous^ and successful 
achievement. When the passional impulses have 
been rendered duly subordinate and the higher pow- 
ers of the intellect are made vigilant in the suppres- 
sion of basely incitive propensities and in enforcing 
a just and economic distribution and expenditure of 
vital energies, there follows the conditions favorable 
to mental and bodily health and the restoration of 
pleasure and interest in the duties of life. 



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71 



CHAPTER V. 

THE VALUE OF PRACTICAL DIRECTION OF THE ENERGIES 
EARLY IN LIFE. 

If the impulses and ambitions are held within 
legitimate bounds and the mind from early youth is 
trained in activities for which it hath an inherent 
adaptation, there ensues a sucession of hopes and 
aspirations, stimulating and urging the energies from 
one achievement to another throughout the term of 
physical life. If the energies be trained in a suit- 
able avocation during the }'ears when the hopes and 
ambitions are in their freshness, there is likely to 
follow opportunities of profitable employ and the 
acquisition of means that will enable the maturer 
years to be devoted to religious thought and to the 
instruction of others. If the energies be early dir- 
ected in full harmony with the inherent genius, pro- 
fessional skill ma}- be so rapidh* developed as to 
give opportunity for leadership or possibly fame in 
the avocation pursued. If there has been such faith- 
ful adherence to esoteric capacities that talent or 
skill is earl}- developed, there follows opportunities 
of choosing associations with which the tastes har- 
monize while the possible material successes will af- 
ford leisure for the higher culture of the intellect. 
\Mth adherence to practical methods and abstinence 
from impure thought, the inherent zeal of \-outh 
finds no diminution through time or even great mis- 
fortune but continues urgent toward the chosen avo- 
cation, while the patriotic and religious emotions 
tend to become stronger as the }-ears of life in- 
crease. 



72 Mmi as a Morally Responsible Being. 



CHAPTER VI. 
THE PSYCHICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ENDOWMENT OF" POSTERITY. 

The methods of the individual man, apart from 
their ordinary significance as to personal welfare, 
are of serious import through their possibilities of 
influencing the character of unborn posterity. 
Within the range of ante-natal influence upon 
posterity, there are the commonly known capacities 
of animal endowment that entail racial and family 
contour of body, and also other capacities of endow- 
ment, not commonly recognized, that give traits and 
impulses reflective of the parental mind during the 
period of gestation, and furthermore, capacities of 
selection, obvious only to psychological adepts, which 
determines the character of the elemental attracted for 
embodiment. The individual mind, paternal or ma- 
ternal, may at different times and under varying 
states of exaltation or depression, attract elementals 
for embodiment of widely differing qualities, so that 
in the one family there are children of genius and 
children of mediocrity, or it may attract an ego 
genius but through unfavorable influences upon the 
maternal intellect during the gestative period, base 
tendencies are implanted that will blight or injure the 
possibilities of high achievements in life. Under 
this law mediocrity may appear in the offspring of 
illustrious parents, through such thought and con- 
duct ante-dating geniture as will attract base ele- 
mentals ; who seizing upon these temporary moods 
become embodied as children to those with whom 
they inherently possess no affinity. Unfavorable im- 



Man as a. Morally Rcspojisible Being. 



pressions upon the maternal intellect during the ges- 
tation of even a superior ego. ma\- entail to the child 
mental shadows or temporar\' evil inclinations, which 
are liable to be x'ielded to or so encouraged in youth 
as to develop impulses and habits of mind that will 
thwart the inherent ambitions and mar the happiness 
throughout life. Adverse parental influence may 
impose serious obstacles to the normal unfoldment 
of inherent pov\'ers. so that the mental qualities 
manifested in life do not indicate the true status of 
the soul according to its eternal heritage. In accor- 
dance with this law. where one gives evidence of ex- 
traordinary mental powers, though born of a de- 
generate lineage, the ego may come of a superior 
order to that of others -of the family and the indi- 
vidual thus endowed is likeh- to have aspirations of 
a kind enabling the breaking through all ordinary 
social barriers and the attainment of a social plane 
congenial to the rulin^ ambition. \\'hile in general 
those with ties of earthh' consanguinity are also affi- 
nities in the inherent qualities of soul, and the at- 
tachments they form in life have perpetuation 
through subsequent spiritual zones and portend even 
their physical relationships in future cycles, there 
may intervene ante-nacal influenct^s that in special 
cases reverse this order. ]\Ian\' who are allied as 
kinsmen in life may thus be wideh' apart spiritually, 
and though possibly maintaining a friend!}' or affec- 
tionate bearing toward each other, they are invari- 
ably destined to separation m the zones of spirit 
through each being attracted to individuals and sur- 
roundings peculiarly agreeable to the psychic heri- 



74 



Man as a Morally Responsible Being, 



tage. The worthy motives and ambitions that enable 
a man to maintain himself in an honored position in 
life, tends to attract about him elementals of a supe- 
rior order seeking embodiment, while like motives, 
though only temporarily inspiring a man of inferior 
status, may be sufficiently timely and propitious to 
give him the parentage of a genius. Thus in every 
civilization geniuses are known to appear in obscure 
families, elevating them to social prominence, 
while the descendants of the voluptuous opulent, 
through the operation of the same laws, often gravi- 
tate toward obscurity. 



Book VII. 



Intersocial Relationships and Institutions. 



CHAPTER I. 
MARRIAGE AS A BENEFICENT RELATIONSHIP OF THE SEXES. 

A legalized and permanent union of man with 
woman becomes to the twain a convenience and a 
source of happiness — to their offspring an assurance 
of support and instruction, and to society a declara- 
tion of honorable mtents and of an assumption of 
the full purports of citizenship. Alarriage to the 
coarser elements of society brings chastity and turns 
the activities from merely selfish aims to attendance 
upon and the support of others. To the refined and in- 
tellectual it brings a more stable and contented state 
of mind and enables the expression of tender sym- 
pathies and affections. Its happier auspices 
depend primarily upon a racial and physi- 
cal affinity between the pair, secondarily 
upon equality in the inherent endowments 
of soul and finally upon certain equalities 
in social status and concurrent religious beliefs. 
Obstacles and hindrances to early marriage are 
likely to obtain with those ambitious toward high 
education or professional skill, thus involving a 
period of celibacy fraught with self restraints that 



76 Intersocial Relationships and Institutions. 



the personel chastity may be sustained. Marriage, 
as the consumation of a demand in nature and an 
adjustment of the mutual dependencies of the sexes 
upon each other, becomes with man one of his most 
sacred institutions and one which he finds deserving 
to be environed with due restrictions and impressive 
ceremonies, that, while preventitive of hasty and in- 
considerate alliances, lend to the prospective union 
a fervid yet venerative enthusiasm. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE MUTUAL INTERESTS OF MEN OF EVERY SOCIAL ESTATE 
AND OCCUPATION. 

Coeval with an advance in civilized methods, and 
the intellectual inequalities and divers occupations 
arising therefrom, is a mutual dependency of one 
order of genius or of handicraft upon another, that 
their combined energies may sustain the well being 
of the people in general. The tillers of the soil and 
gatherers of the products of the sea and the delvers of 
minerals, supply tradesmen and artisans with cer- 
tain necessities of life or the crude materials of com- 
merce and receive in exchange other crude articles 
or wrought implements or fabrics for art or ap- 
parel, while conjointly they support learned pro- 
fessionals who treat the bodily ailments or who give 
intellectual and spiritual instruction. Likewise those 
who execute the functions of government and those 
who manipulate the exchanges of wealth, depend 



Inter social Rclationsliips and Institutions. 77 

for the effectiveness of their decrees and success of 
their enterprises upon wage laborers to whom they 
in turn afford stable government and regulated em- 
ploy. Thus one in accordance with his ph\'sical 
powers and lowh' inclinations, comes to perform 
heavy manual labor and another, in accordance with 
his vigilant energy and prudentiality. accumulates 
wealth and comes to be an employer of labor while 
another, in accordance with his genius, facilitates 
the production of human necessities through dis- 
covery and invention or advances art or literature, 
or by eloquence of speech directs his fellow men to- 
ward profitable methods of thought and conduct. 
The tendency of the distinctive classes or trades to 
all}' themselves too closely and exclusively with 
their own peculiar interests comes to be modified 
by the influence of statesmen and teachers, whose 
contact with all kinds and conditions enables them 
to impartially consider needs of the people at large. 
Hence, a responsibilit}' rests with each class and 
cult and craft that enjoins it to supph' others with 
its special productions and to purchase from others, 
thus giving, while it derives, a sustaining power, and 
this responsibility reaches its more important phase 
with the intellectualh' gifted whose particular func- 
tion is to encourage excellence on every hand and 
to avert unprofitable jealousies and contentions. 



7 8 Inter social Relationships and Institutions. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE CHANGE OF ATTITUDE OF CITIZEN TOWARD RULER THROUGH 
PROGRESSIVE ENLIGHTENMENT. 

As a people advance from barbaric to enlight- 
ened citizenship, their servile and morbidly expec- 
tant attitude toward their appointed ruler is changed 
to an attitude that, while losing naught of the loyal 
support of constituted authority, displays a greater 
independency of spirit and reliance upon themselves 
in maintaining the general welfare. From a state 
of debasement wherein they persistently shrink the 
higher responsibilities of citizenship, yet hold them- 
selves as convenient mercenaries, the people come 
to realize their greater inheritance in the nation and 
proceed to relieve their ruler of the burdens and 
dangers of despotic government by appointing 
statesmen legislators to his support. From a cring- 
ing and servile spirit and an eagerness to do the 
worst bidding of a despot, to concede his pleasure 
a sufficient warrant for any proceeding against their 
fellow men, the people come to possess a spirit of jus- 
tice and benevolence that not only restrains them from 
carrying out petulant or unworthy designs of their 
ruler but also prompts them to sit in judgement upon 
his actions. From a condition in which their 
intolerance, as vested in their ruler, is such as to per- 
secute men for their opinions and to hamper and 
levy such taxation upon the wealthy and enterpris- 
ing that they are wont to take their property to 
other countries for investment, the people come to 
appreciate diverse opinions and to consent to such or 



Litcrsocial Relationships and Listttutions . 



79 



derh' and just government that genius is prolific and 
foreign talent and wealth is attracted toward them. 
From a condition wherein the\' accept a ruler b\' 
reason of his lineage, without regard to his abilities, 
and permit or encourage him to appropriate vast 
wealth to his personal uses, they come to seek 
throughout the land for competent statesmen to ad- 
minister the government and to fix b\- law their al- 
lowances or salaries. From a condition wherein 
high office might be obtained by purchase and where- 
in a ruler might share the profits of a nefarious 
traffic, the people come to be war}' of those who ap- 
pear to seek public appointment for the emolument 
onh' and to tolerate no questionable share of profits 
or an}' unseemh' methods b}' those the}- select to 
frame laws and to govern. From a condition where- 
in extreme partizans or religious enthusiasts or 
reckless insistants upon v\-ar or sectarian strife are 
the chosen legislators, the}' come to measure well 
the declared principles of a leader in their relation 
to the general weal, thereb}' protecting themselves 
from enactments built upon temporary sentiment 
and from all" hast}' and ill considered legislation. 
And thus, from a cowering and mercenar}' attitude 
wherein the people are despicable in the sight of 
their ruler, the}' become, through their manifest in- 
telligence, ennobled in his estimate and their senti- 
ments and principles serve to guide and beneficent- 
ly restrain both his private conduct and his state 
policy. 



8o hitersocial Relationships and I?istitutio?is. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE CONDITIONS OF ACCORD OF GOVERNMENTAL METHODS WITH 
POPULAR SENTIMENT. 

Where no rankling antagonisms, from divergent 
races or creeds or from educational inequalities, 
prevail among the people and independence of for- 
eign dominion is maintained, the principles and 
methods of their governmental system are invariably 
representative of the national character and in ac- 
cord with the popular enlightenment and morality. 
Whether in the unrefined early stages of national 
existence or in its more cultured epochs, the leaders 
and rulers are morally constrained to enact laws and 
to establish a government in conformity with pop- 
ular sentiment and the order established remains in 
favor with the people , until found to conflict with 
newly developed doctrines or material interests. In 
the free and progressive nation occasional reforma- 
tory changes in the laws and regulations are likely 
to be demanded by the people and there is need of 
statesmen of discernment and magnanimity to secure 
equitable adjustments in order to avert agitation, 
disloyalty and revolution. When the people are 
illiterate or depraved relatively to their surround- 
ings and opportunities, they are likely to fail to per- 
ceive and to forestall pernicious class or partizan 
legislation, and, when the effects are upon them they 
become embittered against the constituted author- 
ities or gather in disorderly mobs to destroy the 
wealth their own labors have produced. If a 
people, either through the ill timed magnanimity of 



Intersocial Relationships and Institutions. 8i 



of their rulers or through revolutionary success, ob- 
tain a more advanced form of government than they 
are morally conditioned to appreciate or sustain, 
they are likely to become involved in vicious con- 
troversies and with misleading doctrines, that, unless 
statesmen of great discernment come forth to their 
guidance, will result in confusion and civil strife. 
In the early stage of national organization, the 
government is likely to be based upon principles so 
vaguely defined as to be easily swerved by the per- 
sonel might of the ruler and made to favor selfish in- 
terests or to profit one class at the expense of 
others. Ordinarily, in the primal phase of national 
existence, the arbitrary will of the stronger chieftain 
of the dominant tribe or horde is sufficient to hold 
the people in orderly subjection. Then a condition 
obtains w^herein certain acceptedly beneficent regu- 
lations, taking the form, of laws, have become tradit- 
ional and the principles of a governing system are 
fixed in the popular mind, with rulers from the more 
noteworthy or leading families of the nation. Ulti- 
mately there is government resulting from a count- 
erbalance of sectional or partizan interests, with its 
laws based upon historic experience and the inspira- 
tion of sages, and the rulers are statesmen of intel- 
lectual fitness whose incumbency of office is subject 
to popular approval. 



82 Intersocial Relationships and Institutions. 



CHAPTER V. 

CONDITIONS RESULTANT OF THE PREVALENCE IN THE NATION 
OF ONE OR THE OTHER OF CERTAIN DISSIMILAR 
CLASSES OF MEN. 



The prevalence of the class of men characterized 
by peaceful and industrial qualities gains for the 
nation a repute for political stability and enterprise, 
so that the wealthy and talented of other lands are 
attracted to its cities and become contributors to 
their prosperity and greatness. The prevalence of 
the class of men characterized as turbulent and im- 
provident gains for the nation a repute for political 
intrigue and insecurity to life and property, so that 
its cities become impoverished through the discour- 
agements to commerce and the repulsion of the 
wealthy and talented. The prevalence of the one 
class makes the nation a source of intellectual and 
commercial profit to its neighbors; the prevalence of 
the other class makes the nation a source of annoy- 
ance and danger to its neighbors, who may even be 
constrained to combine against it for the safety of 
their own institutions. The prevalence of the 
one class causes the territories of the nation 
to be filled up and cultivated by frugal im- 
migrants, whose incoming even demands restric- 
tion by reason of their excessive numbers; the pre- 
valence of the other class causes the territories of 
the nation, however fertile, to attract only desperate , 
and mercenary men, whose designs are upon plund- 
ering and bloodshed. The prevalence of the one 
class leads to a constant increase in the numerical 



Inter social RelationsJiips a?id Institutions, 83 



strength and wealth of the nation and its citizens be- 
come remarkable for their just and economical 
methods; the prevalence of the other class leads to 
a decrease in the numerical strength of the nation 
and the exhaustion of its wealth through the prodi- 
gality of officials and the support of a multitude of 
soldiers and pensioners, while upon the youth of the 
land is entailed not only burdensome taxation but 
also vicious prejudices and a restless and belligerent 
temper. The prevalence of the one class is marked 
by a philanthropic and peace loving sentiment, that 
not only endeavors the alleviation of distress within 
the boundaries of the nation but also institutes bene- 
volent missions to foreign lands; the prevalence of 
the other class is marked by an indifference to 
human suffering and a morbid desire for war, in the 
expectancy of grasping the lands or property of the 
enemy or of gaining some selfish advantage during 
the confusion of the conflict. The prevalence in the 
nation of the one class fosters the development of 
personel graces and the spiritualizing of the popular 
mind; the prevalence in the nation of the other class 
fosters the development of vulgar and aggressive 
traits and of such hungering after war that the 
people, whdn not finding a weak neighbor to harrass, 
will fall upon each other in civil strife. 



84 hitersocial Relationships and Institutiom, 



CHAPTER VI. 

POPULAR SENTIMENTS THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE EITHER TO THE 
UPBUILDING OR DOWNFALL OF A NATION. 

A sentiment which takes hold upon and agitates 
the popular mind, hath ordinarily a purport that ac- 
cording to the conditions of its expression, may con- 
tribute toward the prosperity and upbuilding of the 
nation or toward its impoverishment and retrogres- 
sion. A spirit of invasion which effects an affiliation 
of the conqueror with the conquered and a combina- 
tion of their intellectual resources, may prove a mo- 
mentous factor in the advance of civilization and in 
the upbuilding of national power. A spirit of in- 
vasion bent only upon plundering and enslavement, 
may prove disastrous not less to the conquered than 
to the conquerers, through making them bloodthirsty 
and contemptuous of the humbler industries. A 
spirit of migration, whether affecting the fugitive 
remnants of a people receding from their foes, or 
from phenomenal disasters, or stimulating an out- 
flow of vigorous elements from an over-populous re- 
gion, when directed into uninhabited territories or 
those of a racially allied people, may form a nucleus 
for the attraction of wealth or lend valuable assis- 
tance in the foundingof new and prosperous national 
systems. A spirit of migration affecting the mem- 
bers of a nation as a device of escape from an un- 
favorable government, which their moral influence 
might reform, and which precipitates them into the 
territories of a people racially divergent from them 
and with whom they cannot affiliate, may cause the 



hiter social Relationships a7id Institutions. 85 

mpoverishment of the lands they desert and engen- 
der racial conflicts and political confusion in the 
lands they enter. A sentiment insisting upon the 
unity of all human types and leading to the removal 
of caste prejudices, may initiate the beneficent assi- 
milation of tribes, between whom certain endemic 
affinities exist, and thereby improve the general in- 
telligence and capabilities of the people. A senti- 
ment initating the amalgamation of tribes widely 
diverse in mental and physical character, may so re- 
duce the intellectual genius of the superior tribe and 
alter the physical features of the inferior that a de- 
based mongrel order results incapable of sustaining 
high civilization. Warlike ardor, when under suffi- 
cient restraints and only permitted expression in the 
cause of the oppressed or in behalf of effectiveh' 
tested principles, may prove the substantial bulwark 
of national independence and greatness. Warlike 
ardor, when not subjected to proper restraints, and 
if permitted to degenerate into churlish aggressive- 
ness, may prove an important factor in corrupting a 
nation, by leading the people to seek their subsistence 
through robbery and enslavement of others rather 
than through their own productive energies. A sen- 
timent of territorial acquisition by a benevolent and 
progressive people, under circumstances free from 
the appearance of force and robbery, may enable the 
enlargement of the nation's commerce and enhance 
the opportunities of its citizens while also confering 
benefits upon the inhabitants of the annexed terri- 
tories, through giving them just and protective gov- 
ernment and contact with educative and ennobl- 



86 Intersocial Relationships and I?istitutions. 



ing influences. A sentiment of territorial acquisi- 
tion, under circumstances favorable only, to the 
interests of the conqueror and having no re- 
gard to the desires and interests of the people con- 
quered or annexed, may result in turbulence and 
misery in the territories concerned and a necessity 
for the continual employment of repressive force 
with them. A sentiment engendering a centraliza- 
tion of the government, when breaking up a number 
of petty principalities or loosely confederated pro- 
vinces and creating a single law making focus, while 
yet maintaining the equable representation of each 
section, class and interest, may prove an enhance- 
ment of the strength of the nation and a guarantee 
of its security from internecine strife and foreign en- 
croachment, while also lessening the general taxation 
and the burdens of state. A sentiment engendering 
centralization of the government, when interfering 
with the representative system and placing extraor- 
dinary or autocratic power in the hands of one man, 
or subjecting territories of different conditions of 
population and climate to the dictation of a people 
outside of or not concerning themselves with these 
localized conditions, may prove oppressive and the 
cause of disloyalty and rebellion. A sentiment that 
is conservative and venerative of established institu- 
tions or traditional philosophy or the inspiration of 
sages of the past, may prove a safeguard to the 
nation against reckless experiment and the schemiing 
of partizans and adventurers. A sentiment that is 
unyieldingly conservative and abjectly venerative of 
established institutions or traditional philosophy or 



Inter social Relaticviships and histitiitiois. 87 

the inspiration of sages of the past, to the disregard 
of recent discovery, invention and inspiration, ma}' 
become obstructive to all progress and place the 
nation so far arrear of its contemporaries in civilized 
methods as to make even its cohesive existence de- 
pendent upon their good will or forbearance. 



Book VIII. 



The Adjudgment of Individuals by their Traits 
and Qualifications. 



CHAPTER I. 

HE THAT IS DISCREET AND PRACTICAL COMPARED WITH HIM 
THAT IS INDISCREET AND IMPRACTICAL. 

He that is discreet of words and manners invari- 
ably commands the respect of those with whom he 
comes in contact: the youn'g and uncorrupted being 
instinctively attracted to him. He that is indiscreet of 
words and manners commands not even the respect 
of those indiscreet as himself, while the young and 
uncorrupted instinctively shun him. He that prac- 
tices forbearance and magnanimity hath assurance 
of many friends and few enemies and his opportun- 
ities in life are favored accordingly. He that is hasty 
and resentful hath assurance of many enemies and 
few friends and his opportunities in life suffer ac- 
cordingly. He that is skilful in his vocation, how- 
ever humble it may be, and economic with his earn- 
ings is able to sustain a measure of personel inde- 
pendence among his fellow men and is rarely in dis- 
tress for the common necessities of life. He that is 
unskilful in his vocation and extravagant with his 
earnings is at all times hopelessly dependent upon 
his fellow men and is frequently in such straits as to 



The Adjudgement of Individuals, 89 

require charitable assistance. He that maintains a 
character for trustworthiness, for industry or for 
learning invariably finds people eager for his society 
or to engage his services. He that becomes known as 
untrustworthy, slothful or ignorant invariably hath 
difficulty in finding people to associate with him or 
to engage his services. He that early in life acquires 
learning and proficiency in a calling, thereby lays 
the foundation for an enriched intellect and a satis- 
factory means of livelihood, then in his old age he i.^ 
gratified by the esteem others manifest for him. He 
that early in life disregards learning and proficiency 
in a calling, thereby elects himself to an inferior 
channel of thought and aspiration and an unsatisfac- 
tory means of livelihood; then in his old age he is 
saddened by the aversion which others manifest for 
him. He that adopts a calling consistent with his 
inherent capacities and conducts himself in accord- 
ance w^ith his serious reasoning and the inspiration 
derived from religious influences, hath assurance of 
success in his ventures and is likely to be content 
with his portion in life. He that mistakes his inherent 
capacities through some inculcated belief or un- 
propitions influence or fails to employ reason in his 
conduct or to cultivate religious influences, thereb)* 
places himself in antagonism with natural law. as it 
applies to his individuality, and as a result fails in his 
ventures and is likely to be discontent with his por- 
tion in life. 



90 



TJic Adjiidgmejit of hidividuals. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE MORALLY ENLIGHTENED AND THE MORALLY UNENLIGHTENED 

COMPARED. 

Morally enlightened men hold themselves ac- 
countable to their own conscier irrespective of 
legal or prudential cons' ' .rat'ons. Morally unen- 
lightened men apprehend only legal or prudential 
considerations when the rights and interests of 
others are involved, though they are acutely con- 
scious of the principles of justice when their own 
rights and interests are involved. Morally enlightened 
men, through not being swayed by the momen- 
tary passions and prejudices, are qualified to deal im- 
partially with individuals holding opinions differing 
from their own. Morally unlightened men, through 
being constantly sw^ayed by their momentary im- 
pulses and by narrow and partizan sentiments, are 
not qualified for disinterested fairness, neither have 
they a true appreciation of political liberty, being 
liable to construe it into a license to rob or to perse- 
cute their opponents. Morally enlightened men 
contrive to manage their subordinates efficiently and 
w^ithout giving offense or exciting insubordination. 
Morally unenlightened men, if in command of others, 
are prone to arrogance and to vindictive measures, 
thus bringing against themselves much ill will and 
antagonism. Morally enlightened men have know- 
ledge of their own capacities and are able to calcu- 
late with accuracy upon desired movements or en- 
terprises. Morally unenlightened men are uncertain 
of their capacities and fearful of the consequences 



The Adjudgmejit of Individuals, 



of desired movements or enterprises, while they are 
frequently distressed by omens or misgivings as to 
their own evil tendencies. Morally enlightened men 
meditate seriously before embarking upon a ven- 
ture, then if oppoci'^-,ion or defeat ensues they accept 
it with patience -^.nc ^'ortitude. iNIorally unen- 
lightened men are wont to proceed aimlessly with 
an enterprise, then if involved in disaster they be- 
come clamorous of their losses and are filled with 
a despondency that suggests relief in debaucheries. 
Morally enlightened men have an understanding of 
their rights under the law and are rarely miisled or 
suffer injury from the aggressive or criminal. Morally 
unenlightened men are uncertain of their rights 
under the law and are often misled or injured by 
others and find themselves powerless to obtain re- 
dress. Morally enlightened men are alert to acquire 
property, to the extent of averting want, and to 
acquaint themselves with the law for its protection. 
Morally unenlightened men, if not improvident, are 
insecure in their belongings, either from injudicious 
impulses or from their ignorance of the law for its 
protection. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE MAN OF CHASTE SEXUALITY COMPARED WITH THE MAN OF 
UNCHASTE SEXUALITY. 

The man of chaste sexuality is solicitous as to 
the nature of the influence he exerts upon the young 
and confiding. The man of unchaste sexuality is in- 



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different as to the influence he exerts or the humili- 
ation he may bring upon the young and confiding. 
The one is willing to take upon himself the burdens 
and responsibilities attendant upon marriage, and 
hath care that his decendants shall be qualified for 
honorable positions in life; the other hath an aver- 
sion to the burdens and responsibilities attendant 
upon marriage and is without solicitude for pos_ 
terity. The one is given to speak of the profitable 
features of marriage and the pleasures derived 
through sustaining and fitting the young for voca- 
tions in life; the other prates of human depravity or 
of his seductive powers or of the unwisdom of mar- 
riage and parentage. The one manifests an aversion 
to lewdness and comports himself to elicit whatever 
inherent genius his associates may possess; the 
other delights in lewdness and is alert for vulgar in- 
sinuations, while he invariably comports himself to 
elicit whatever frivolity his associates may pos- 
sess. The one is disposed to industry and abstin- 
ence that he may acquire the means to support a 
family; the other is disposed to idleness or easy 
living and to such indulgences as portend his dis- 
qualification for marriage and parentage. The one 
is discreet in amatory advances, having due regard 
to the affections of those he may influence, as well 
as to sequences that he may occasion to himself; 
the other is eager to entrap youthful affections but 
does not concern himself with any injury to charac- 
ter or happiness his actions may lead to. The one 
is at all times seeking to discover the virtues of hu- 
manity, and is disposed to accredit every manifesta- 



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93 



tion of regard between the sexes as of worthy in- 
tent ; the other is at all times seeking the frailties of 
humanity and perceives in every manifestation of 
regard between the sexes an evidence of impropriety 
or intrigue. 



CHAPTER IV. 
TRAITS AND METHODS OF THE TRUE STATESMAN. 

The true statesman is concerned that the 
natural resources of the land are not grasped by 
avaricious individuals andthat streamsand mountains 
and highways are not made private possessions. He 
advocates economy with the funds of the state and 
the restriction of taxation to the minimum for effi- 
cient government. He proclaims against unnecessary 
offices and the appointment of the needy kinsmen 
of notable personages to official positions, and also 
against over burdening the people with soldiers and 
pensioners. In the selection of public servants he ad- 
vocates such competitive system as will secure the 
most capable men that the honors or the emolu- 
ments of the office will satisfy. If there is surplus 
money in the treasury, he advocates either a reduc- 
tion of taxation or some method of restoring it to 
the people, as, through the fostering of industries or 
the building of highways or other public benefits and 
conveniences. He understands the importance of 
international commerce and advocates such liberal 
concessions to foreigners as will stimulate traffic and 
cause his own people to extend their interests 



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abroad. If he hath achieved such successes in war 
or diplomacy as to lead his fellow citizens, " out of 
their gratitude, to urge high ofifice upon him, he will 
not construe it into an opportunity to set aside any 
constitutional principle for the enlargement of the 
power of the office he may secure or for the perpetua- 
tion of his official career. He is magnanimous toward 
misguided political offenders, invariably seeking their 
restoration to loyal citizenship and refusing to make 
their error an occasion for oppressive measures. 
When finding dangerous antagonisms prevailing be- 
tween people of different classes or localities he seeks 
to become a mediator and to bring about such mu- 
tual concessions as will enable their reconciliation, 
and the harmonious interblending of their in- 
terests. 



CHAPTER V. - 

TRAITS AND METHODS OF THE WRONGHEADED AND 
UNSCRUPULOUS MAN. 

In the capacity of a superior or an official, the 
wrongheaded and unscrupulous man is characterized 
by bombast and by arrogance toward those coming 
under his rule. He desires friendship only with the 
prosperous and favors legislation that will increase 
their prosperity and power, but is careful to avoid 
contact with the unfortunate or uninfluential. He 
seeks to awe the ignorant through parade of his 
office or of high sounding titles, and, when he may 
claim credit for a praisworthy act, he is careful to 



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have it published throughout the land. He vaunts 
high patriotism to gain popular support, or fosters 
an alarm of war that he may carry out schemes con- 
tributing to his own glory or wealth. As a subordi- 
nate he is malignant and treacherous toward his 
seniors, laying great stress upon their faults and 
losing no opportunity of adverse criticism of their 
methods. If unlettered he seeks to compensate for 
his deficiencies and to gain promotion by show of 
physical energy or by menial services to those high 
in office. If unable to exact servility from his jun- 
iors or subordinates and becoming aware of their 
dislike for him, he resorts to such vexations as will 
be likely \o urge them to the commission of overt 
acts or to conduct that will retard their promotion. 
He is driven to artful practices in order to placate 
his numerous enemies and is often in dire straits to 
avoid public exposure. When confronted with his 
misdeeds and finding no means of evasion, he re- 
sorts to piteous appeals and to such fawning upon 
his superiors that they are loth to inflict a severe 
penalty upon him. In religious matters he jeers at 
the piety of those not of his own faith or sect and is 
active in circulating evil rumors and in designing op- 
pressive measures against them. While maintaining 
a severe or vulgar attitude toward those who differ 
from his own beliefs, he invariably cowers and 
grovels before his accepted religious ministers and 
is prepared and eager to carry out the most churlish 
designs they may countenance. He cavils at the 
social pleasures he is not qualified himself to appre- 
ciate and discovers great evil in the pastimes of his 



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neighbors. By reason of his own unschooled pro- 
pensities, he is disposed to believe others incapable 
of unselfish motives or of resisting the common 
temptations. If posing as a religious leader, he 
seeks to confuse all questioners with unanswerable 
challenges or with juggling feats or to awe them 
with mystic powers of healing, while his dread of 
close scrutiny leads him to have frequent recourse 
to equivocation and subterfuge. 



CHAPTER VI. 
TRAITS AND METHODS OF THE SAGE-LIKE MAN. 

The sage-like man, while having primarily certain 
intuitional gifts or endowments, nevertheless owes 
his material wisdom and skill of expression to con- 
sistent studies and meditations and to a practiced 
surveillance over his passional impulses. His intui- 
tional gifts serve to impel him toward the study and 
solution of problems in nature and to the selection 
of a philosophic system acceptable to his line of 
reasoning. His innate yearning for knowledge is 
wont to lead him into foreign lands and into contact 
with different races and nationalities, in w^hich events 
his view^s are broadened and he is necessarily imbued 
with liberal and benevolent sentiments. He acquaints 
himself with the esoteric principles of religion, so 
that the basis of his convictions underlies the forms 
and ceremonies which attract the ordinary man. He 
views with calmness obstacles to his interests as they 



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97 



present themselves and is not disconcerted b\' the 
failure of an}' cherished enterprise. His spirit yields 
not to cares and anxieties or to pett\' grievances, and 
when his legitimate duty is thought to have been 
performed, he hath satisfaction within his own mind 
whatever the sequences . He is characterised by 
order in all his activities; his private meditations, 
social attentions and sustaining avocation having 
each their regulated hours. He becomes necessar- 
ily exclusive when investigating abstruse problems 
but on ordinary occasions finds time for bodih' 
recreation and for the interchange of sociabilities. 
When temporarily isolated from refined social in- 
fluences, his intentioned morality is sustained 
through abstention from suggestive thought and the 
direction of his mental energies upon religious or 
philosophic questions. While conscious of his com- 
mendable gifts and attainments, hisbearingis devoid 
of affectation while his words are adapted to the 
learning and refinement of those with whom he is 
for the time being associated. He finds no pleasure 
in the society of the base and vulgar and is onh' 
drawn toward them through solicitude for their im- 
provement. He hath no applause for slanderous or 
salacious gossip and when among persons thus 
given, he endeavors to direct attention toward sub- 
jects having a beneficent import or free from evil 
influences. His intellectual nature craves associates 
capable of discussing questions of state or of moral 
or religious philosoph}^ while his benevolent nature 
craves association with the youthful and lowly that 
he may impart beneficent instruction to them. 



Book IX. 



The Human Mind in its Connection with the Re= 
actionary, Compensative and Retribu= 
tive in Nature. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE EFFECTS OF THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF MORAL PRIN- 
CIPLES IN THE MIND. 

• ————— 

The presence of moral principles in the mind 
assures trustworthiness and a capability of resistance 
to evil influences. The absence of moral principles as- 
sures untrustworthiness and incapability of resistance 
to evil influences. With moral principles in the mind 
there ensues an orderly surveillance over the thoughts 
and desires, which affords security to the honor and 
chastity. Without moral principles in the mind there 
is no protective surveillance when opportunities 
abound for untoward thoughts and expressions. 
With moral principles there is likely to be an active 
mentality and traits that exert a purifying and . im- 
proving influence upon human society. Without 
moral principles there is likely to be an inactive or 
slothful mentality and traits that exert a contamm- 
ating influence upon human society. With moral 
principles the individual is prone to avoid levity or 



Mental Contact ivitli Re actio fiary Xature. 99 



boisterousness of manner and invariabh' elicits a 
favorable estimate from his neighbors. Without 
moral principles the indi\'idual is disposed to le\-ity 
and boisterousness and he comes to be regarded 
\\ ith mistrust or pity or contempt b\- his neighbors. 
With moral principles the indi\'idual is urged to be- 
come so beneticenth" informed and talented that in 
his old age he is attractive to the \'oung and stu- 
dious. Without moral principles the individual is 
urged to live extra\'agantl\' or riotously and to so 
neglect beneficent information and skill as to make 
him in his old age repellant to the \'oung and stu- 
dious and an incumbrance to his kinsmen. With 
moral principles there obtains an honorable tone to 
the character and there is elicited from others the 
kind of approbation that looks to the virtues. With- 
out moral principles there is a doubtful tone to the 
character and only such approbation is elicited from 
others as looks to ph\'sical attractiveness or licen- 
tious opportunity. With the presence of moral 
principles the mind is endued of a potency that 
helps to purify the intellectual atmosphere of the 
community, so that others deri\'e profit from its ac- 
tivities. Without the presence of moral principles 
there is a participation in wanton thought that helps 
to attaint the intellectual atmosphere of the com- 
munity, so that others derive injur}' from its 
activities. With moral principles the mind is readily 
moved to deeds of benevolence and valor and 
patriotism. Without moral principles the mind is 
readily moved to deeds of violence and criminality. 
With moral principles the mind is disposed to great 



100 Mental Contact ivith Reactionary Nature. 



endeavors toward the national prosperity or the ad- 
vancement of human civilization in general. Without 
moral principles the mind is disposed wholly toward 
selfish interests and is unconcerned as to national 
prosperity or the advancement of civilization. With 
moral principles the inherent traits and character- 
istics are developed harmoniously with the soul's 
spiritual interests. Without moral principles various 
disturbing elements are permitted to enter the mind 
and to change the normal trend of its faculties or to 
urge propensities antagonistic to the soul's spiritual 
interests. 



CHAPTER II. 

EFFECTS OF THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF RELIGIOUS 
FERVOR. 

When there is religious fervor in the mind and 
heart of man there is likewise a consciousness of his 
moral obligations and spiritual interests. When there 
is no relgious fervor the moral obligations and spiri- 
tual interests are invariably neglected, and there is a 
disposition to give tongue to skepticism or to 
mockery of what may be to others sacred beliefs or 
ceremonies. When there is religious fervor there is 
also hopefulness and alertness to opportunities for 
noble and heroic deeds and also for the ordinary in- 
terests of life. When there is no religious fervor 
there is likely to be neither the stimulating hope and 
faith for great deeds nor an alertness for the ordinary 
interests of life. When there is religious fervor 



Alental Contact icit/i R.e actio nary Xaturc, loi 



there is also constant cheerfulness and energy tor 
fresh enterprises, even after many discomfitures or 
failures. When there is no religious ferv^or 
there is a tendency to lukewarmness in 
every function in life and to a want of resource 
and a timidity of great effort or enterprise. When 
there is religious fervor there is a lively concern in 
the duties and occupations of daily life and a favor- 
able state of mind for the reception of learning and 
inspiration. When there is no religious fervor there 
is lack of concern or want of patience with the<duties 
and occupations of daily life and the mind is in an 
unfavorable state for the reception of learning and 
inspiration. When there is religious fervor there is 
such concord of the yearnings of the mind and 
heart with the possibilities of achievement that na- 
ture appears to alter her usual course to approach 
and reveal her secrets and show her approbation. 
When there is no religious fervor there is such dis- 
cord within the mind or misdirection of its energies 
as to thwart the fruition of its possibilities, as if na- 
ture, while not altering her usual course for direct 
interference, had neverthless taken effective mea- 
sures to withhold her treasured secrets and to show 
her disapprobation. When there is religious fervor 
there is a prudential consideration and solution of a 
question before the use of public expressions against 
it, thus sustaining a reputation for consistency 
and avoiding the consciousness ofhaving injuriously 
influenced others. When there is no religious fervor 
there is a disposition to the hasty declaration of 
views, which being hastily changed under change of 



102 Mental Contact with Reactionary Nature. 



circumstances, there is acquired not only a reputa- 
tion for inconsistency but also the consciousness of 
having led others into error or confusion. When 
there is religious fervor, unconnected with belligerent 
passion, there is a respectful and tolerant attitude 
toward every venerated creed and reasonable system 
of worship extant among men. When there is no re- 
ligious fervor there is a disposition to fanatical zeal 
for one especial creed and violent antagonism to- 
ward all others. When there is true religious fervor 
there is co-operation and harmony of the emotions 
and sympathies of the heart with the perceptions and 
reasonings of the intellect and the soul hath joy and 
profit in every condition of life. When there is no 
true religious fervor there is want of co-operation and 
harmony of the functions of the heart and the func- 
tions of the intellect and the soul hath dissatisfac- 
tion in every condition of life. 



CHAPTER III. 

METHODS ESSENTIAL TO THE PROPER SUCCESSES AND 
JOYS IN LIFE. 

In the interest of the soul-profitable successes and 
and pleasures, it is needful to place limitations upon 
the sensuous impulses and to practice economy in 
the exercise of the intellectual and the corporeal func- 
tions as well as in the management of the proceeds 
of labor. In the interest of the wits and gifts of 
intellect and also of such social attractiveness as 



Moital Ccvitact ivith Reactionary Xatior. 103 



leads to practical opportunities in life, it is needful to 
guard and command the impulsive energies and to 
display discretion and moralit}' in the behavior. In 
the interest of stabilit}' and dignity of character, it 
is needful that there be maintained neither an inord- 
inate ambition nor a qualit}' of submissiveness to 
humble or uncongenial conditions but a happy 
blending of aspiration, acquisitiveness and moral 
consciousness. In the interest of amibition toward 
the attainment of eminence among men. it is need- 
ful to curtail or sacrifice on occasion the common 
social enjo\'ments and to devote the hours which 
others give to leisure to special studies and medita- 
tions. In the interest of personal chastit}', it is need- 
ful to master the passional elements and to erect 
barriers of a social or religious nature against basely 
tempting thought, that while the exercise or grati- 
fication of an\' special function is being held in 
abeyance, the soul receives no unholy attaint. In 
the interest of liberal views and magnanimity of 
spirit, it is needful to be neither overconfiding nor so 
tenacious of accepted doctrines as to regard ques- 
tioning and investigation an impropriety. In the 
interest of self satisfaction and that humiliating 
mediocrit}* may not vex the soul, should material 
successes give opportunit}' for association with the 
refined and gifted, it is needful that there be a 
systematic unbuilding of the intellectual powers 
coeval with the acquirement of special talent or 
wealth. In the interest of a religious harmon\- of 
soul, there needs be a certain humiliation of spirit 
before such powers extant in nature as maintain 



104 Mental Contact with Reactionary Nature. 



themselves intangible to the physical senses and an 
avoidance of that condition of mind wherein the 
perceptions of the senses are held in higher estimate 
than the perceptions of the inner soul consciousness. 



CHAPTER IV. 

PREVALENT SINS IN THEIR REACTIONARY METHODS AND 
EFFECTS. 

Words contemptuous of such spiritual powers as, 
according to the ascendant order in nature, man 
should regard with deference, places the mind in an 
antagonistic attitude toward its higher self, as 
well as divinity, and in this virtually abnormal state 
there invariably obtains, among other evils, a dis- 
tressing expectancy of retributive vengeance from 
some invisible source. Words discrediting the bene- 
ficent interest and designs of Deity toward man, 
being inverse to the evidence of surrounding nature 
as apparent to human reason, reacts upon the mind 
with a peculiar disposition to expose with constantly 
increasing emphasis its cynical hardihood and to 
manifest a sense of unworthiness to be connected 
with any religious propaganda. Words derogatory 
to the character of others, as in magnifying of faults 
and minimizing of virtues, entails to the mind, in 
addition to the assured distress of conscience, a 
state of trepidation lest those spoken against should 
undertake a retaliatory course. Appropriation or 
theft of anothers' earnings or belongings, confirms 



Me?ital Contact with Reactionary Nature. 105 



the mind in its disregard of the rights of 
the legitimate producer to the enjoyment of his 
productions, yet such disregard, not being com- 
petent to remove the distasteful influences con- 
nected with property thus obtained, there invariably 
ensues an eagerness to squander and be rid of it. 
Faithlessness in wedlock and alienation of affection 
between husband and wife, eliminates first the 
veneration for laws regulating sexuality then 
initiates such an occupation of the mind with intrigues 
or devices to avert exposure as to prevent the enter- 
tainment of any profitable subject, while the con- 
science is burdened with a sense of responsibility for 
whatever shame and suffering comes to the wronged 
ones. Seduction and abandonment of the young, 
in reactionary effects, arouses first all the innate 
perfidy in the accomplishment of the design, then 
proceeds to overshadow the mind w^ith images 
of the victim and with strange accusing impressions 
until Deific Justice hath inflicted a sufficient penalty; 
Base excitation or perversion of passional impulse 
in the young, reacts with abnormal propensities and 
a sense of personel demoralization that annuls the 
essentials of honorable citizenship and disposes the 
mind to favor criminal deeds and to condone immor- 
ality in others. The abandonment of offspring, 
hath the effect of overshadowing the mind with self 
loathing and unnatural emotions toward the }^oung 
entailing a burden upon the soul, compared with 
which the honorable support of such offspring, legi- 
timate or illegitimate, is a trival charge. The 
maiming or needless destruction of dumb animals, 



io6 Mental Contact with Reactionary Natnre. 



effects such hardening of the heart and a disposition 
to the shedding of blood that there are eventually 
no scruples at the taking of human life, but even 
when this blood thirsty tendency prevails there is an 
afflicting inner consciousness of having grievously 
offended nature through taking from her creatures 
that which cannot be restored to them. 



CHAPTER V. 
ATONEMENT FOR SIN. 

Atonement initiated through remorseand worthy 
resolves, hath completed its purports when a fair 
measure of redress and the good will of those sinned 
against is attained. Atonement for sin may take 
place soon or late after its commission, but whatever 
the lapse of time until restitution begins, nature fails 
not in her cognition of what hath occured nor in the 
infliction of suitable penalties. Atonement needs be 
made by the actual sinner, through methods of the 
heart and intellect and not by an intermediary or 
substitute or by any sacrificial or mechanical contri- 
vance or religious ceremony. A^tonement for self 
inflicted injuries, or sins of omission, ordinarily re- 
quires such redoubling the efforts at worthy achieve- 
ments and charitable acts as will regain the self es- 
teem and an approving conscience. Atonement for 
serious criminality is not readily attainable, for na- 
ture being chary of her favors and disposed to en- 
trust no rare gifts of intellect to the mercenary or to 



Mental Co?ttact with Reactionary Nature. 107 

those attainted with gross immoralities, only relents 
from her rigid attitude when the transgressor gives 
sufficient evidence of a sincere and penitent spirit. 
Material atonement may be attained through com- 
pensative redress of grievances ; spiritual atonement 
requires that, in addition to the consciousness of 
having made an efficient restitution, there is a guar- 
antee subsistent in the mind that the offense will not 
be repeated. While ignorance may be said to favor 
the promulgation of vice — as comparatively few com- 
mit overt acts when fully aware of what the conse- 
quences will be — there is no provision in nature for 
absolving either the ignorant or the enlightened sin- 
ner, though the latter is likely to find for certain 
sins certain afflictions of conscience that do not 
apply to the lowly mind. While it is possible to es- 
cape some of the ordinary physical consequences of 
sin and to elude human detection, it is not possible 
to escape the intellectual and spiritual consequences, 
which are invariably opportioned and adapted to the 
mental status of the sinner. The full atonement for 
a sin may be known by the effacement of the attaint 
upon the conscience and the sense of having made 
ample restitution, through favors to the actual suf- 
ferer or through compensative philantrophy, intel- 
lectual or material, distributed among the needy. 



io8 Me?ital Contact with Reactionary Nature. 



CHAPTER VI. 

PREPARATION AND PERFECTION OF THE SOUL FOR SPIRITUAL 
EXISTENCE. 

While the greater part of human energy is by 
nature apportioned toward material self sustenance 
and the social duties and amiabilities, there obtains 
in the career of each individual opportunity for the 
exercise of certain faculties of the heart and intel- 
lect that tend to develop the soul and to favorably 
condition it for spiritual existence. Upon the 
threshold of the spiritual plane, the special beliefs 
and idiosyncracies at once become paltry and insig- 
nificant, while the gifts of intellect and the records 
of worthy labors and benevolent deeds are the 
special qualifications that enable the souls' admis- 
sion to superior realms and conditions. While a 
career of intellectual acquisition or benevolently 
directed energy in life, without religious beliefs or 
afifiliations, becomes a better spiritual preparation 
than a career of mediocrity or unworthily directed 
energy, whatever the religious beliefs or affiliations, 
it is nevertheless the combination of wisdom, energy 
and religious sentiment that affords the most desirable 
spiritual inheritance. Through much earth know- 
ledge and a disciplined and inspirational mentality, 
the soul is fitted for noble spiritual associations and 
is capacitated to joyfully contemplate and experi- 
ence the greater glories of the heavens ; through 
ignorance and a laggard or vicious or uninspired 
mentality, the soul is enchained to inferior spheres 
and occupations in each heavenly zone it inhabits. 



Mefital Contact with Reactionary Nature, 109 



The nature of the career in life leaves a certain im- 
press upon the soul that clings to it through many 
zones and spheres, so that for every moral deficiency 
a corresponding deficiency in spiritual power and 
glory is experienced, or, mediocrity on the earth 
plane is rewarded with mediocrity on the spiritual 
plane. Harmony with the laws of the physical 
body, intellectual culture and freedom from attaint 
of crime, are favorable to the spiritual interests ; 
inharmony w^ith the physical body and the culture 
of fanatical or base qualities are unfavorable to the 
spiritual interests. The normal desires and passions 
of man entail services which perfect and give happi- 
ness to the soul, and the spiritual interest calls not 
for their entire suppression but their regulation to 
legitim^ate and moral ends. The soul of man, being 
entitled to but one physical birth in the animative 
cycle, the matter of the first concern in life is the 
righteous performance of the common material 
functions; then there should be the intelligent study 
of phenomena within the individual experience, and, 
as its final and crowning features, an acquaintance 
with the exact sciences and with the philosophy of 
the spiritual universe. Hence, a substantial prepar- 
ation for the spiritual plane is achieved in the faith- 
ful discharge of the ordinary functions and occupa- 
tions of physical life, while a beatific halo obtains 
to the soul through the practise of morality and de- 
velopment of the religious and inspirational facul- 
ties. 



Book X. 



Cotntnands and Admonitions. 



CHAPTER I. 

TO SAGES AND LEADERS OF THE ARYAN NATIONS. 

O sages and leaders of a race mighty in history 
and great in modern civilization! urge thou and 
inspire thy Eastern and thy Western nations, Iranian 
and Caucasian, that while keeping in remembrance 
their glorious patrimony, they shall heed well the 
essential methods for the perpetuation of their 
world wide prestige. While the Oriental division 
of thy race may now be thought to have attained 
such admixture with alien types as to have lost its 
ancient fervor, and the \\'estern division to have 
become arrayed in nationalities of such hostile 
attitude toward each other as to portend their even- 
tual ruin through devastating war, it becomes the 
more thy important duty to be courageous and 
active in amending, where possible, the error of the 
one people in enslaving and latterly assimilating 
inferior types of men to the deterioration of their 
posterity, and the error of the other people in en- 
gaging in an interminable strife among themselves. 
Practice thou and teach justice and magnanimity 



Commands and Admo?iitio?is , 



toward such social and religious systems as appear 
directly at variance with thine own, that thy fair race 
may merit its reputation as the more advanced and 
liberal of the four predominant human types of 
the present era. Seek not to make foreign races 
abjure their indigenous creeds or systems of thought 
nor destroy their reverence for their ancestral line 
nor urge their conversion to the exact mode of be- 
havior and of worship as practiced by people of thy 
civilization, but be content to profit them in com- 
merce and to aid their enlightenment in whatsoever 
material learning thou art in their lead. Enslave 
not thy foes when thou hast conquered them nor 
any lowly or barbaric tribe, nor encroach upon lands 
wherein such inferiors have established a peaceful 
community, but maintain the conscience of thy 
people sensitive and alert to the inherent rights of 
humankind regardless of racial features or status of 
civilization. When thou hast laid claim to new ter- 
ritories within climatic zones favorable to thy race, 
consider well any aboriginal people therein and 
make such provision for them as will secure their 
protection from the immoral and avaricious — 
thereby also protecting the good name and con- 
scientious scruples of thy colonists. When thy ter- 
ritories possess racially alien elements, whose pres- 
ence is not profitable to thy government or to the 
morality of thy people, expel them not forth as 
wanderers or parasites into neighboring countries 
but seek to restore such elements to the lands 
whence they originally came, or provide them with 
distant territories and offer them inducements to 



112 Commands and Admonitions. 



emigrate thither, and thus so reduce their numbers 
in thy midst that they will cease to exert a deleter- 
ious influence. If any of thy governments have 
assumed control over the territories of a weak alien 
people within a climate where thy race will not 
flourish, endeavor to deal justly with such tribes, to 
educate and improve them, seeking not their con- 
tinued vassalage but their preparation for national- 
ity and self government. Be duly observant of any 
threatened invasion of thine established domains by 
racially alien peoples; whether they come as armed 
warriors or as peaceful colonists or as menial labor- 
ers, and take such measures as will prevent their 
gaining a foot-hold in the land and engendering 
discord for thy posterity. While yet taking meas- 
ures to maintain thy territories free of unassimila- 
tive foreign elements, fail not to lend material aid 
to any weak or detached fragments of alien types 
with whom thou shouldst come in contact, seeking 
if needs be, to place them in proximity to nations with 
whom they may affiliate in accordance with the decrees 
of nature. Deal benevolently with nations disturbed 
by turbulent and rebellious men and employ thine 
influence to prevent devastating wars among them; 
that thy people may be widely known for their 
admirable qualities and that the services of thy fair 
sons may often be in demand in guiding the political 
affairs of the less favored orders of humanity. 
Encourage emigration from the densely populated 
regions of the earth to those with few inhabitants, but 
seek to so control these movements as to assign the 
emigrants to territories wherein the racial may 



Cojn7}ia7ids a?id Admonitions, 113 



become national boundaries and preventing the 
establishment in an\' region of several distinctive 
and antagonistic racial castes. Encourage no vain 
laudations of thy race or of its achievements, but 
instruct thy sons to take cognizance of what is due 
alien philosoph}' and invention, and also what 
dependency thy people yet sustain for their com- 
merce and the opportunities of profitable enterprise 
upon nationalities an-Aryan in type and in the 
methods of civilization. 



CHAPTER II. 

TO SAGES AND LEADERS OF THE SEMTIE NATIONS. 

Come forth from thy long silence, O sages and 
leaders of the Semite racel and restore to thy 
people the rank which their ancestors held among 
the nations of the earth. Call together the scat- 
tered hosts of Israel and lead them into the lands of 
the Saracen, that their astute prowess may be united 
to the valor of their indigenous bretheren for the 
establishment of governing systems and the secur- 
ing of freedom from alien domination. Let the 
religious eloquence peculiar to thy race resound 
from statesmen-rulers and prophets, that humanity 
may again experience its joyous fervor. Call those 
of thy kindred that traverse the desert and those 
that reside in the lands of the gentile and incorp- 
orate them with thine established nationalities, that 
they may give strength to rebuild the noble cities 



114 Commands and Admo?iitio?is. 



of the East and fill them with imposing temples and 
palaces. Urge especially upon thine Israelitish 
people to come forth from their unwelcome resi- 
dence with the Aryan and the Turanian and to ally 
themselves with their Saracen kindred, and seek 
thou also for such new inspiration as will enable 
thee to re-organize thy creed and to place all thy 
people under one broad religious and political sys- 
tem. Suffer no longer thy people to remain as 
hated and despised intruders among their racial 
enemies, where they are liable to be prohibited or 
discouraged from such employ as a befits strong and 
capable men, and where they become necessarily de- 
void of patriotism or even cherish enmity toward the 
governments they live under. Let the experience 
the Israelite hath gained in alien lands, teach thee 
the principles of just government, while their past 
tribulations may warn posterity never henceforth to 
become wanderers and interlopers among those who 
have no racial affinity with them. Let the creed 
that hath sustained Israel through great persecu- 
tions, and that hath served as an example to all man. 
kind of the imperishability of religious principles 
which are founded upon inherent truths in nature, 
be so broadened, under new inspirations, as to enable 
a nearer relationship if not a complete fusion with 
Islam. Let thy enlightened men employ themselves 
to gather the Arab hordes that now pursue toilsome 
or nefarious vocations, and the Hebrew merchant- 
men of the great cities of the world, and coalesce 
them into one homogeneous and loyal people- 
that the diadem of their glory may be restored and 



Commcmds and Admonitions. 1 1 5 

that all the races and nations of mankind may have 
joy and profit in their greatness. 



CHAPTER III. 
TO SAGES AND LEADERS OF THE TURANIAN NATIONS. 

Sages and leaders of a race mighty in numbers 
and of civilizations that have renown in human his- 
tory! thine inspiration needs now be directed to thy 
rulers and to thy priestly orders, that they may be 
led to concern themselves with social reforms and 
to emulate the governing methods and the philos- 
ophy of the ascendant Aryan powers. Bring thy 
people to an understanding of the affinity and 
and mutual of interests of the Mongol, Tartar and 
Malay branches of thy race and the need of their 
close alliance for social benefits and for protection 
against alien aggression. To thy nations which 
in former ages were foremost in philosophy, in war- 
like prowess and in the inventions of civilization, 
but w^ho have latterly fallen arrear of certain aliens, 
it is incumbent upon thee to impart such inspira- 
tion and enthusiasm as w^ill arouse ambitions toward 
an equality with the great modern powers. Seek 
especially to modify the prejudices of the people of 
thy greater Mongol empire, that they may be 
brought into harmony with every advance which the 
Aryan or the Semite hath made in civilization. 
Seek to enliven and improve on the doctrines of 
their ancient sage-rulers, that new intellectual forces 



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Comma?ids and Admo?iitio7is. 



may be engendered to expel the diseases of mind 
and body resultant of a deteriorated or misinter- 
preted philosophy. Take measures toward lessen- 
ing the burdens of the common people of thy several 
nations and to set in process needful reforms in their 
local governments; and likewise to the abolition of 
their many pernicious customs — especially their 
extravagant sacrific'al worship. Seek a modifica- 
tion of belief in the powers and achievements of 
the ancient sages, as being beyond the possibilities 
of the trained and gifted of thy modern race, and 
endeavor to remove from such belief the current 
superstitions that make these wise men appear 
monstrous or super-human. Seek to remove from 
thy people unreasonable antipathies toward foreign 
creeds; for it may be that through the friction of 
divergent systems their true religious enlightenment 
will be attained. Teach them to fear not that the 
w^orthy tenets of their indigenous philosophy w^ill be 
injured through contact with alien faiths; for any 
principle which does suffer in such contact is likely 
to be found inherently defective and unprofitable to 
retain. Let thy rulers employ friendly aids and 
advisors from alien nations, so long as members of 
such nations are found the more skilled in diplom- 
acy and advanced in the methods of benevolent 
government, but relax not thy efforts to make thine 
own gifted sons equal to the demands of every office 
in thy civil and military institutions. 



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117 



CHAPTER IV. 

TO SAGES AND LEADERS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONS.. 

Sages and leaders of the Ethiopian nations I 
search eainestly for the causes of the inferior posi- 
tion which thy people now hold among the races of 
mankind, and strive to employ such incentives as will 
enable their moral and spiritual awakening. Seek 
to bring about either a peaceful conference and 
union of thv different racial elements or urg-e thv 
stronger tribes to subdue and incorporate the weaker 
and thus to establish nations of sufficient pov/er to 
repel the aliens who desire their lands, as well as 
those who continue to harrass or to enslave them. 
Call forth thy kindred now bearing toilsome bur- 
dens or sufferincr indig-nities among; stranc^ers and 
bring them into the lands of their ancestors, that 
they may take part in the upbuilding of thy new 
formed nations. Let thy bretheren returning from 
foreign shores enlighten the aboriginal mind and so 
disseminate their acquired learning that ambition 
and patriotism may be aroused to eventually remove 
the reproach now associated with thy type and 
color. Be thou energetic in the intellectual awaken- 
ing of thy people, lest all their vast territorial in- 
heritance fall under the dominion of oppressive 
aliens. Call upon the enlightened and philanthropic 
of other races to assist in bringing thy people to- 
gether and in giving them self sustaining nationality; 
that the}' ma}' develop the abundant resources of 
the tropical forests and plains; thereb}'stimulating the 
commerce of the world and adding new properties 



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Commajids mid Admonittofis. 



and luxuries to human civilization. Thy people 
should claim the African tropics as their natural 
heritage and therein found their empires, for how- 
ever vigorously the Semite hordes may encroach 
the northern boundaries of this region, and Cauca- 
sian colonies expand upon the south, there yet 
remains an extensive area in which climatic condi- 
tions will continue to favor thy race. Be not 
discouraged by the seeming vastness of the 
obstacles to thy cause; for however many centuries 
may be required to bring thy people to an equality 
in civilized power with the more cultured nations of 
the earth, thou art in such effort giving opportunity 
to the development of heroic and benevolent qual- 
ities, while assuring the preservation of thy peculiar 
type from extinction or a hopelessly servile or 
dependent state. Sustain the spirit of thy people 
through such turmoil and confusion as may accom- 
pany the early stages of their nationality and civili- 
zation; for popular convulsions are wont to bear a 
certain analogy to turbulent emotions within the 
individual breast, which, with sufficient chasten- 
ing and surveillance, give fitness for heroic 
activities and for measured strength and power. 
Induce members of thy race who have received 
instruction. and training in foreign lands to permeate 
the indigenous tribes and imbue them with the 
rudimentary principles of civilized religion and gov- 
ernment; then ambitious princes may be encouraged 
to break up the tribal status and to create nations 
extending over vast territories. Appropriate that 
which is beneficent to thy cause from foreign systems 



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but endeavor no abject adherence to their dogmas; 
rather seeking to evolve a creed from the precepts 
of nature as thou art able to perceive them and a 
political regime peculiarh' adapted to the racial 
qualities and the Intellectual status of thy people. 



CHAPTER V. 

TO THE INFLUENTIAL CITIZEN. uN THE PRINTIPLES AND METHODS 
OF SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT. 



iTheinstitu= \Mien any people of the land have 
tion of timei> advanced to an appreciation of the 

Reforms and 

Maintenance higher dutics and obligations of citizen- 
LoyaltrtotL ^^iP' not slow to enlarge their liber- 
Government. tics and political privileges, thereby 
forestalling agitation, disloyalty and a revolu- 
tionary spirit. Be cautious not to array the govern- 
ment against any aspiring or impetuous class or sec- 
tion of the people, notwithstanding their seeming 
perverseness, but endeavor such adjustment of the 
laws as will afford representation according to fit- 
ness or proportionate interests ; thus encouraging a 
sense of dut\' in maintaining the national repute and 
and bearing the burdens of state. Be slow to coun- 
tenance force with the politically misguided or tur- 
bulent, but when discovering their actual needs or 
grievances, proceed with the remedy ; whether it be 
in the nature of a more equitable adjustment of tax- 
ation or encouragement or regulation of industrial 
pursuits or the education and enlightenment of the 



120 Commaiids aiid Admonitions, 



popular mind. On all occasions where there is a 
manifestation of class or partizan sentiment, seek 
thou the means of reconciliation, and in the further 
pursuit of this principle, let thy efforts be toward 
such counterbalance of the conservative and the 
inovative elements of the nation, that while there is 
due respect for constituted laws and institutions, 
there are yet no insurmountable obstacles to what- 
ever reforms its changeful or progressive conditions 
of society demand. 

2 The ^"^^ intelligent supporter of the gov- 
Economicai ernmcnt, concern thyself that reasonable 

Administra= • i. - j • i_ t j- 

tionofthe economy IS practised m public expendi- 
Govern- tures and that the people are not taxed 
'"^"^* to maintain unnecessary offices or a non-es- 

sential army. Take heed that the emoluments of gov- 
ernmental service are neither so meagre as to ex- 
clude efficient men nor so remunerative as to create 
a hungering after office or eagerness to fill the ranks 
of armies. Concern thyself with those having ren- 
dered notable services to the nation — as the veterans 
of its armies or its patriots or heroes in times of dis- 
order or oppression — recording their merits as an ex- 
ample to the young and providing those disqualified 
for self-sustenance with the means of livelihood. 

3. Treat- When dealing with the erring and crim- 
Er^ringamT "^^y P^^'po^c be toward rcstor- 

Criminai. ation of their moral consciousness and 
their interest in worthy activities, and when they 
are under penal restraint, utilize thou the term of 
their imprisonment to improve them intellectually 
and to urge them to industrial habits. When;in the 



Commands and Admonitions. 



\2\ 



interests of peace and the securit}' of the earnings of 
honorable men it is necessary to imprison those given 
to violence or pilfering or other vices, employ no vin- 
dictive force with them, but set thy heart upon mea- 
sures tending to arouse the sentiment of reform. Let 
there be the infliction of penalties commensurate 
with the offense by the constituted authorities, but 
take heed that they do not entail lasting injury or 
the sinking of all hope in life; lest thy methods be- 
come tyrannous arid evoke only hatred and evil mo- 
tives. Refrain from severities against the intel- 
lectually inferior or those of inherent evil tendencies, 
but consider that such have few favors from common 
humanity, while nature hath many afflictions in store 
for them because of their wanton disregard of her 
laws. 

4. Secret Consider secret social organizations 

Societies and i • r ^i ^ i 

Religious deservmg or thy support oni}' m tmies 
Castes. when opposition to or criticism of the 
established order is severely dealt with; for under 
ordinary circumstances, subjects that are worth}' of 
secret discussion are worth}/ of public discussion, 
which latter method hath the merit of exciting no 
misgivings as to motives. Look thou upon the con- 
cealment of religious principles, of discovered truths 
in nature and of inventions beneficent to man, or 
their retention exclusively by a select order or caste, 
as defensible only when their prevails in society ex- 
treme degradation and a tendency to profane that 
which is sacred, or to emplo}' high wrought and in- 
tricate knowledge to base purposes. 



122 



Commands and Admo?dtions, 



5- The Consider wealth a necessity for carr\'- 
Accumuia- ^^^^ ^j^^ crreat works of advanced civ- 

tion of ^ fe* 

Wealth. ilization, and look thou upon its accumu- 
lation as commendable when purposed for the sup- 
port and education of the young or for self-susten- 
ance in years of decrepitude or for investment in en- 
terprises favorable to the common weal'. Thou 
shouldst discern evil in accumulated wealth when its 
possessors are able to stifle competition and to reap 
for themselves excessive profits, or when it is used 
to influence legislation adversely to the popular in- 
terests, or when it keeps men in luxurious idleness 
and exempts them from the beneficent ambitions 
and activities of life. 



CHAPTER VI. 
TO PARENTS AND HEADS OF FAMILIES. 

I. Paren= Consider parentage in the light of a 
cTbllg^ion demand in nature, that each racial and 
In Nature, family line may be perpetuated and con- 
tribute its appointed share toward the strength and 
glory of the nations of the earth. Consider parent- 
age especially obligatory with the superior types 
and orders of men, that their noble posterity may go 
forth to enlighten the barbarian and to bring him 
material benefits through commerce and the efficient 
watering or reclamation of sterile and ill-conditioned 
lands. Consider parentage essential toa man's com- 
plete social status, bringing as it does, with the pro- 



Commands and Adinoriitions. 



123 



tection of wife and child, a certain moral power while 
evoking in old age a class of joys and comforts of 
which the celibate is barren. 



Look not upon the support of the young as an in- 
vestment nor in the nature of charity, but as a need- 
ful provision for such as demand thy solicitude until 
the maturity of faculties give strength for self sus" 
tenance. Let thy surveillance be of such quality as 
to protect youth from errors of appetite or passion 
entailing injury to bodily functions or to the moral 
character, so that the powers of the soul may bene- 
ficently unfold and all vicious and enslaving habits 
be averted. Let the young be taught consideration 
for the aged and for superiors and for officials, that 
they may become pleasing to others and find oppor- 
tunities for profitable employ and refined associa- 
tions. Let youth be given both practical and social 
training in their order and furthermore the impress 
of such moral and religious catechism as will coun- 
teract and restrain every turbulent and sensuous im- 
pulse. Let there be a discreet revealment of creed 
tenets, according to the powders of inception, that 
a religious faith may be acquired and views engen- 
gendered that w^U require no reconstruction in ma- 
turer years. Guard well the inmature affections and 
passions, that infatuation for the unworthy or unsuit- 
able may not occur, and that the sexual virtues and 
graces may be sustained and happiness in the con- 



2. The 
Guidance 
and Instruc- 
tion of 
Youth. 



Hold thou the guidance and instruc- 
tion of youth as one of the greater concer 
ns of life, and a bounden duty in so far 
as affects those of thine own lineal descent. 



124 Commands and Admonitio?is. 



nubial relation assured. Let youth have protection 
from luxurious living and morbidly incitive litera- 
ture, that the appetites may remain simple and 
practical views predominate over the mystical and 
visionary. Refrain from surrounding youth with 
servile attendants, that there may not be wanting a 
proper regard for active vocations or the capacities 
of self-sustenance. Avoid likewise an over solici- 
tude for the material endowment of youth, holding 
moral and intellectual development the greater con- 
cern ; for the latter should be a reasonable assurance 
of honorable position and the means of livelihood. 
Take upon thyself to have thy sons instructed and 
qualified in all the duties of citizenship, that they 
may fail not in their vocations nor in obedience to 
the law of the land and that thy line of descent may 
be set in worthy channels and conditioned for the 
production of honorable men in succeeding gen- 
erations. 



CHAPTER VII. 
TO ELDERS AND SUPPORTERS OF RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 

I. Places Purpose thou thy houses of worship to 
anr^their'' ^^^^ ^^^^ admission of every class of 
Appendages, men; that rich and poor, worthy and 
unworthy may be drawn together in unison 
of spirit to offer up prayers and to receive 
new inspiration. Even in the great cities, where 
the extremes of refinement and debasement obtain, 
encourage thou these common gatherings and only 



Command's a)id Admonitions. 



12; 



where the few. under deep shame, demand separate 
and special ser\'ices shouldst thou depart from this 
system. Endeavor to construct th\' temples about 
with appendages that inspire veneration and that 
in\-ite the sorrowing and penitent to enter for the 
unburdening of their minds. Th\' ceremonies ma\- 
partake of musicial, scenic or dramatic features but 
should in each case aim at spiritually affecting the 
mind. Especiall\- avoid that which amuses, or 
excites the passions, and also the parade of formal- 
ities, lest the mind be di\'erted from meditations 
proper to the occasion and the worship becomes 
purel}^ exoteric and un-inspiring. Seek after no 
church properties, other than places of worship, nor 
endowments nor support from the government, but 
keep thine organization at all times dependent upon 
its members, that they may know its needs and have 
opportunit}- to manifest their attachment through 
frequent contributions. Build no institutions for the 
resort of monastic or mendicant religious orders or 
of any class of persons professedly devoting them- 
selves exclusiveh' to religious rites; for the profit 
derived by the few out of such isolation from the 
common acti\dties and duties of life will not compen- 
sate the injury sustained b}'^the many who morally- 
degenerate through the enforced idleness or absence 
of incentives which stir the ambitions and bene\'ol- 
ence of men. 

^. . In the selection of th\' religious minis- 

2. Choice ' 

of Religious ters, give preference to those who come 
Ministers. fQ^-^vard spontaneously as natural leaders 
and as inspired and self qualified before those 



126 



Comma?ids and Admonitions. 



especially schooled for religious services, as for a 
vocation, without regard to inherent fitness. Let 
thy choice be guided by such gifts of eloquence as 
excite ardor and enthusiasm in others, and also 
give preference to those of independent spirit and 
originality before those characterized by subserv- 
iency to prevailing opinion or by the familiarit}' 
with the tenets of a given code. Demand no exact 
theological catechism from those elected to admin- 
ister religious rites nor make choice between the 
celibate and the married, but consider ability to 
instruct and to inspire emotion and serious thought 
in men the safest criterion of choice. 

3, On Encourage not thy ministers to. take 
Ministerial upon thcmsclves titles or distinctions or 

Restraints. i r • n 

degrees or any appendage of mnuence or 
power other than that which the personality inspires, 
but demand that those who assume religious ofifice 
shall prove themselves indifferent to the baubles 
and emoluments which ordinary men are disposed to 
yearn after. Allow no confessionals nor inquisitory 
mstitutions, but exact of thy ministers an acknow- 
ledgement of the principle that each transgressor 
shall meditate and commune with Divinity alone 
for the atonement of sin and for peacefulness of 
mind. Permit not thy ministers to exact fees or 
presents for marriages or christenings or funeral 
orations or for the performance of any ceremony by 
virtue of which fee or present the rich are given pre- 
ferential officiation over the poor. 

4. Euiog= Allow no ceremony of canonization of 
Ceremonials ^^e departed soul or any attempt to 
for the Dead, beatify or to portray the station it is 



Commmtds and Admonitions. 127 



entitled to in its spiritual career. Have no masses 
or other ceremonies offered up for departed souls, 
but be guided by the precept that the immutable laws 
of nature can only be influenced toward individuals 
through efforts of the individuals themselves. \\ hile 
consistent eulogies and funeral orations employing 
solemn and impressive features, that entail no great 
sacrifices upon the living, may worthily be retained 
in thy church system, thou shouldst at least permit 
no ceremonial partaking of the nature of absolving 
the departed soul from penalties it may be justly 
entitled to. Consider, therefore, as superfluous every 
ceremony for the dead save simple prayer and the 
recounting of special virtues or the mianifestation 
of proper respects to the mortal remains of one who 
hath terminated the life phase of existence. In con- 
formity with this principle, set thyselves against the 
use of consecrated water or wine and the burning of 
prepared paper or wood or incense or other sub- 
stances, and likewise against the spilling of the blood 
of animals and whatsoever entails profitless sacrifice 
and suffering in the endeavor to express sorrow and 
esteem. 



CHAPTER VHI. 
TO RELIGIOUS MINISTERS AND TEACHERS. 



I. Intel- Before attempting to discuss abstruse 
iectuaiquai= pj-jj^ciples or to direct the minds of 

ification be= ^ ^ 

fore Preach= men toward religious observances, pur- 
sue thou such a course of studiousness 



128 Commands and Admonitions. 



and meditation as will give thee skill in the percep- 
tion and in the expounding of esoteric truth and the 
quality of arousing inspiration and enthusiasm in 
others. When thou art fully assured that to preach 
is thy proper avocation, shrink not from beginning 
in lowly channels, for it may be that thou canst at- 
tract and instruct the common or uncultured people 
while yet unable to attract or to instruct the intel- 
lectually gifted or highly cultured. 

2. Meek Hold thyselvcs before the people 
tentious*'^" i^^rcly as the equals of ordinary men 
Bearing. and uot as if entitled to especial ven- 
eration or privilege or even to be distinguished from 
others by peculiarities of dress or of bodily habits 
save such as denote orderliness and refined sensi- 
bilities. Assume not the possession of occult or 
hidden powers or the ability to commune w4th and 
to receive information from invisible or desembodied 
intelligences, nor attempt positive answers upon the 
specific features of the spiritual universe or the 
nature of Deity. While, however, thou art yet meek 
and unpretentious in outward bearing, give thyselves 
not to the concealment of any benevolent idea or 
insight of any principle in nature that thou hast per- 
ceived and perfected in thy meditations, but be 
courageous to formulate such into suitable phrases 
for the instruction of others. 

^ ^. Acquaint thvselves with the different 

3. Caution ^ 

in Advisory cults and scicuccs and be studious of 
Teachings, ^j^^ varied phases of human thought and 
belief, but be cautious in imparting to unschooled 
men views or theories that tend to arouse aggressive 



Convnajids and Admoidtions. 129 



fervor, nor lead them to forsake honorable occupa- 
tions to search after some metaphysical or illusive 
phenomena. Advocate no doctrines tending to 
alienate the minds of ordinar\' men from the practi- 
cal activities of life, nor religious rites that do them 
bodily injury, nor cause them to neglect family and 
social duties and responsibilities in an effort to at- 
tain personal holiness or a saintly estate for the soul. 
Encourage no morbid inquisitiveness for the occult 
or preternatural but urge against tampering with 
whatever is of the nature of hypnotism or sorcery or 
spirit control and especially against making a mate- 
rially profitable calling out of such manifestations. 
Take heed that in thy preaching against idolatrous 
practises, there is not aroused such prejudice in thy 
adherents as willlead to the destruction or mutilation 
of ancient monuments or writings, or works of art ; 
whether the\' be of reli«"ious or non-reIia"ious intent. 
Confine thy preachings in this respect to illustrative 
comparisons provmg the more advanced grounds of 
thy creed, while yet maintaining a certain venera- 
tion for ancient relics, to preserve them as examples 
of human progression and even as a resource for 
those who delight to delve into the scenes and 
methods of past ages. 

4. Behavior When Subjected to abuse and con- 
Under abuse ^^^^^^j^, j^^- vicious or the fanatical 

or Fanatical -' 

Antipathy, of Other faitlis, "endeavor to sustain a 
mild and forbearing spirit and such kindh* 
demeanor as will shame the aggressors into volun- 
tary apologies, or cause them to place themselves so 
manifestly in the wrong that others will necessarily 



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Commands and Admoiiitioiis , 



applaud you and denounce them. Allow no of- 
fender to leave thy presence without an effort to 
pacify him or to arouse a consciousness of his error, 
nor fail to rebuke the wrong doer nor witness vil- 
lainy nor hear confessions of it without exposing it ; 
burdening not thy minds with secrecy concerning 
sins that should be made known. Enter upon no 
aggressive arguments against the one personel deity 
of Islam on the deific trinity of Christianity or the 
all embracing deific principle of Brahmanism and 
Buddhism, but allow to each faith its peculiar merits 
and be frank to admit its adaptation to the race and 
civilization that sustains it. 



CHAPTER IX. 

TO THE INDIVIDUAL IN DAILY LIFE. 

I. Restraint Let not the Unconsidered or vulgar 
ot the Beiii= ^^,Qj-jg q£ ^}^y ncip^hbor irritate thee or 

gerent and c> 

Vindictive draw forth petulant language ; for it is 
Impulses. niore valorous to either ignore or to 
gently rebuke an incontinent reviler than to turn 
vindictively upon him. Whilst there is no demand 
in nature that evil disposed men shall rob or do thee 
bodily hurt without the exercise of thy powers in 
self defense, still, when approached in the heat of 
passion or even with malignant design, it is incum- 
bent upon thee, not only to employ thy intelligent 
efforts to avert the execution of another's evil de- 
signs but also to give opportunity for reconciliation 



Commands and Admointions. 131 



and the expression of penitence. Bear in mind ihat 
the belligerent n iture undisciplined is a frequent 
source of sorrow and danger to its possessor ; the 
ability to govern it efficiently being an essential 
qualification to every spiritually refined or cultured 
intellect. Take heed that an aggresive attitude does 
not imply moral courage or the capacity to enforce 
a demand but is often indicative of cowardly weak- 
ness, while a gentle and yielding attitude is charac- 
teristic of practised self control and honorableness 
of motive and furthermore of the capacity to defend 
when necessary individual rights and principles. 
Bear in mind that an aggressive manner frequently 
leads to unseemly encounters with harsh and irre- 
sponsible people and that there results a 
lessening, both of personel security and of favorable 
opportunities in life, while kindliness or affability of 
manner affords an actual security to the person from 
violence, and, through the creation of friendly 
confidence on every hand, adds favorably to the op- 
portunities in life. Be vigilant to suppress vengeful 
impulses, whatever the circumstances tending to 
arouse them, and take cognizance how the aggres- 
sive frequently bring physical retribution upon them- 
selves through conflicts with those of like temper, and 
that nature assures a spiritual retribution in its 
season. 

2. Leniency Be forbearing, even under weight}^ grie- 
Fauits'Tnd vauces, and entertain no sense of obli- 
Defects of gatiou ou th\^ part to avenge injuries 
others reccivcd; leaving the major proportion 
of thy wrongs to the tribunals of the invisible 



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Commands and Ad7no?iitions. 



world for ajudication. Cultivate a considerate de- 
meanor, not only toward the well meaning and cour- 
teous, but also toward persons of the rudest sort: 
seeking at all times to encourage the agreable traits 
of men while avoiding excitation of their baser 
impulses. Be not eager to condemn the error of thy 
neighbor, nor think it thy mission to pass judgment 
upon him or to blatantly expose his defects, but con- 
tent thyself that for his wrongdoing a spiritual 
reckoning will eventually take place. Denounce no 
man because of the meagreness of his virtues but 
charitably accept the natural endowments and the cir- 
cumstances of his life as sujfficient cause for his 
shortcomings. If serving under an exacting 
or morally inferior man, be not constantly 
arrayed against him but endeavor loyal obe- 
dience, even though thy heart abhor his methods. 
Avoid extreme hostility even toward pronounced 
evil doers; for aside from penalties they receive from 
the law, they entail upon themselves much secret 
agitation of mind and are in need of pity and due 
restraints rather than harsh treatment. Withhold 
impulsive criticism of thy religious or political oppo- 
nents ; for controversial or contemptuous language is 
not likely to injure their doctrines, neither will thine 
own beneficent precepts or principles receive any 
profit through heated exposition or defense. Avoid 
unfavorable conclusions of every one in beggarly 
circumstances; for some persons are rendered desti- 
tute through unavoidable mishaps or the incautious 
practise of liberality or actual philanthropy, while 
others through ambitious ventures may become tem- 



Com7nands and Admointions. 133 



porarily dependent. When a man is unci\'il or 
overbearing toward thee, first examine thine own 
conduct to ascertain if he hath any just grievance, 
then, if finding no reasonable cause and thou art un- 
able with honor to thyself to placate him, consider 
him too vile for further notice and thereafter shun 
him. Bear in mind that those taking upon them- 
selves to practise tolerance and voluntary redress 
are safeguarded against unprofitable wrangling and 
seldom have need to interrogate the law or to bring 
iheir affairs before a magistrate. 

r.. Let thv demeanor be marked by 

3. Discre= 

tion in the eamcstness and candor and avoid both 
Demernlr flattery and vulgar discussion of the 
and .in the weaknesses of thy neighbors. Espec- 
Associations -g^^j,^, avoid unfavorable comments or 
evil imputations in the presence of the young, lest 
they come to be wanting in veneration for their 
elders, or their minds become so familiar with the 
unpropitious that no villainy appals them. Take 
heed that the professions of thy tongue do not out- 
W'eigh the designs of thy heart, for assumed virtues 
deceive only the unwary: the cultured and penetrat- 
ing mind being invariably alert to discern the actual 
intents. When once thou hast accredited th\'self 
with a virtue before thy fellow men, make effort to 
adhere to its principles; for if detected in a practice 
thy words have condemned; thou art at once liable 
to ridicule or to the charge of insincerit\\ Avoid the 
manner of those who pry closeh' into the affairs 
of their neighbors or who are quick to impK' evil 
motives; for it is a common fault to detect and to 



134 Commands and Admojiitions. 



condemn in others the defects peculiar to one's 
own character. When the bad qualities of a per- 
son are mentioned in thy presence, seek to have dis- 
closed also that which is creditable to him; for it is 
generally safe to believe a man better than rumor 
accounts him to be. 

4. Main= Cultivate and maintain self approba- 
Se"f^"Appro= ^'^^ through employing the powers of 
bation. mind and body in such manner as to per- 
ceive thy activities creditable in whatever light they 
may be viewed. Avoid self disparagement nor hold 
too lightly thine own intuition and reasoning as com- 
pared with that of other persons, however re- 
nowned; for nature hath implanted some especial 
virtue in each human mind which is functioned to 
become of utility to the individual advancement in 
the earthly career. Be thou assured that self appro- 
bation can only be sustained through honorable 
intents and intelligently directed energies, and 
furthermore, through methods that are neither 
sychophantic nor groveling; for nature requires only 
courtesy between man and man, even though the one 
be employer or superior and the other employe or 
subordinate. 

5 Cuitiva= Constantly apply thy faculties to im.prove 
tion of wis= the moral discernment, to expand the 
anTBeiTevo^ bcncvolcnt impulscs and to increase reli- 
lence. gious fcrvor; for in each of these quali- 

fications the soul hath a treasured resource of 
happiness. Continue to nurture the pure aspirations 
of thy early youth and be alert againnt the acquire- 
ment of any vicious tendency, lest melancholy and 



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135 



confusion take hold upon thy mind. While yet 
maintaining in legitimate exercise all the physical 
energies and capabilities, be thou eager for acquisi- 
tions of the heart and intellect, rather than for earthly 
glory or for lands or chattels. Let the will and 
reason be trained to hold in balance any faculties of 
over-active or insubordinate tendency and to so man- 
ipulate the varied energies of the body that com- 
plete order and harmony of soul will result. When 
through meditation thou hast perceived the spiritual 
portents of any selfish impulse, employ thy will and 
reason toward its mastery and proceed to evolve 
motives and ambitions in. harmony with thy highest 
conceptions. Exercise, chasten and train the fac- 
ulties of thy animal organization but undertake not, 
under religious zeal or other influence, to destroy or 
to entirely suppress their normal powers; for 
nature demands the portents of them all in her 
economic system. If when influenced by the relig- 
ious nature thou shouldst possess impulses and 
motives of one kind and when influenced by the 
animal nature thou shouldst possess impulses and 
inclinations of another kind, it is incumbent upon 
thee to employ thy reason- to decide which quality 
it is desirable to cultivate and which to suppress, 
that the conduct may at all times be acceptable to 
the moral consciousness. Cultivate also fortitude 
and grieve not over misfortunes; for it may be that 
personel losses will acquaint thee with the sorrows 
of thy fellow men and develop sympathies profitable 
to the soul. Nourish and maintain thy hopes and 
worthy intents and if a cherished enterprise fails of 



ComDunids I'nid Ad^iionitiois. 



success, make haste to start afresh upon new ven- 
tures. Be content with what is virtually attainable 
of thy desires, seeking and cultivating meanwhde 
such religious precepts as nourish and sustain thy 
hopes of futurit}'. 

6. Devot= Let prayerful devotions accompany th\- 
ionaKnedi= material labors, that the worldly pur- 
suits and ambitions may be subordinated 
to th\' religious principles. When momentous 
affairs beset thee, seek the seclusion and solitude of 
hill or plain or seashore wherefrom thy thoughts 
ma}' go forth freely upon the concerns in prospect, 
and thus alone with nature ascertain thy proper 
course of action. When in a region favorably 
designed b\' views or by combination of elements to 
exhilerate the faculties and to excite aspiration and 
hope, call up the special features of thy career and 
commune with Deity and in meekness of spirit 
accept the dictates of whatever answering inspira- 
tion thou dost then receive. Let thy mind continue 
its prayerful devotion and meditative research until 
the soul is imbued with spiritual ecstacy and there 
is a disposition to prophesy and to outline a course 
of activities worthy of religious adherence to in thy 
ordinary or uninspired condition. Let thy thoughts 
after this manner have frequent meditative commun- 
ion with the Infinite, and when thereby freed from the 
baser elements and transported above thy common 
surroundings, accept thou the bent of the inclina- 
tions as in verit}- the answer to th}- questionings. 
7. Penitence When couscious of having sinned against 

and Repara- nature or thv fcllow man, resolve quicklv 

tion for " . . . ' 

nisdeeds. upou Compensative or meritorious ettort ; 



Commands and Admonitions. 137 



for it is through such measures that thou wilt de- 
serve absolution. Think not that thou canst obtain 
absolution at thy convenience or that nature will be 
lenient with thee; for her laws are just and unchange- 
able and there are none who receive spiritual favors 
they have not earned. Seek atonement for thy sins 
speedily, lest they accumulate and become burden- 
some to thy memory or cause the moral conscious- 
ness to lose its vigilant influence in the mind. Think 
not with a religious ceremony or a self-chosen pen- 
ance to atone for a sinful act ; for although these 
may have their beneficial effects, it is ordained that 
man shall adapt his m_ethods to the laws of nature 
and not that nature shall adapt her laws to the whims 
or the convenience of man. If a dissolute course in 
youth hath weakened thy pow^ers of intellect and ob- 
scured the genius and ardor that once gave thee in- 
spiration and hope, seek first to know thy faults, then 
even though thou hast arrived at the middle age in 
life, set aright thy course and with penitential fervor 
strive after the esoteric virtues and the attainment 
of good repute among thy fellow men. If thy mis- 
taken methods have served to arouse the moral im- 
pulses and led to sincere resolutions, proceed to re- 
double thy exertions in whatever are perceived to be 
honorable pursuits, and thus merit atonement through 
turning the wisdom gained of thy evil experiences to 
thy future guidance. Take heed that a sensitive 
conscience, that goads the mind for every departure 
from right, is a most fortunate possession; for the 
mental suffering it incurs is fully compensated 
through its influence in turning the energies into 
worthy and profitable channels. 



138 Commands and Admonitions. 



8 Princi= abiding and in sympathy with 

piesandPre= legal measures, avoiding the spirit of those 
of^ai^^ob-^ ^'^^ clamorous and rebellious and of 
servance. those wlio are intolerant of methods and 
ideas adverse to their own. In forming judgment 
upon others, be regardful of actions rather than 
words ; for some persons are found to be fair of 
speech but poor in achievement and others there are 
whose commendable deeds excel the import of their 
words. Although some creatures appear to serve 
beauteous and noble purposes and others repulsive 
and base purposes, know ye that where a vocation, 
either noble or lowly, is a necessity in nature or in 
human civilization, those following it are deserving 
and meritorious in their order. Take heed that upon 
critical examination few persons are found virtuous 
or commendable in all respects, and that the chasm 
between those classed as good or bad is not so great 
or so clearly defined as it is currently supposed to be. 
Take heed that it is rarely those given to much ques- 
tioning and criticism, but those who display honor- 
able activity who achieve notable success among 
men, and furthermore, that self surveillance returns 
greater profit to the individual practising it than the 
meddlesome surveillance of the affairs of other per- 
sons. Take heed that even vulgar men may recog- 
nize and appreciate virtue in others, but that it 
requires a refined sense of justice to condemn not in 
others much that one is able to find excuses for in 
himself. In forming judgment upon men, fail not t o 
take into consideration their surroundings and op- 
portunities ; for the same correctness of manner can 



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139 



hardly be demanded of one whose sustaining voca- 
tion occupies the whole day as of one whose voca- 
tion occupies but half the day, or for one whose voca- 
tion is solitary as of one whose vocation brings him 
much in intellectual contact with his fellow men. As 
nature is wont to inflict penalties upon the exalted 
and the lowly relatively to their inherent powers, 
ordaining to the richly endowed dire consequences 
for acts that their intellectual inferiors may commit 
with impunity, thou shouldst strive in comform.ity 
with this principle, to hold thy fellow men respon- 
sible according to their lights and endowments. In 
thy meditations search nature for divine intents and 
apply inspirational convictions to thy special needs, 
but think not that the precepts found profitable to 
thyself are unqualifiedly profitable to every man. ' 
Cultivate faith in thy intuitions and powders of rea- 
soning ; for it may be that under the exaltation of 
thy faculties thou shalt perceive truths which only 
sages have ready access to. If without assurance 
of reward self-denial is difficult, and a belief that 
great personal sacrifices in the cause of righteous- 
ness as a rule only find their reward in spiritual 
realm.s should discourage thee, use thy reason to 
ascertain if there is not sufficient compensation for 
thy worthy efforts derived from thine own inner 
consciousness. Let thy daily prayer be one ot 
praise and communion with Infinite love and not an 
intercession for selfish benefits, for advantages over 
other men or for whatsoever hath not been duly 
earned. Be observant of the permanence and justice 
of natural law and take heed that the prayerful ap- 



140 Commands ajid Admonitions. 



peals of both humble and exalted men are answered in 
accordance with the conditions of their material sur- 
roundings and environments. Take heed that the 
aspects of the spiritual world are to the majority of 
men as the hues of material nature are to one born 
blind, and be thou accordingly neither arrogant in 
questioning nor positive in opposition to the views 
and assertions of those claiming actual knowledge 
of spiritual conditions simply because thine own 
faculties do not perceive them. Take heed that 
while each mind in its earthly career may have an 
adaptation to some especial service, whether sage- 
like, ofificial or menial, the sensuous and passional 
nature is inherently the same in all men, though dif- 
ferently disclosed according to license given or sur- 
veillance exercised. Take heed that while 
disease is a manifestation of the abnormal and is 
frequently the result of untoward action, health of 
body and contentment of mind are the normal in- 
heritances of life and are commonly realized by those 
whose voluntary activities accord with nature's laws. 
Take heed that in the ambitious pursuit of a high 
purpose in life, the mind is necessarily led into a 
variety of beneficent activities and especially to the 
acquirement of economic habits and a limitation of 
the appetites and passions. Take heed that surveil- 
lance of the thoughts and impulses is the key to 
mental harmony and a safeguard of virtue, while the 
conscious possession of moral character gives frank- 
ness of speech and the courage to denounce what- 
ever appears evil or unseemly. Take heed that if 
conscious morality is maintained through conditions 



Commands and Admonitions. 



141 



offering great temptations or under compulsory as- 
sociation with those of salacious language, there ob- 
tains an ease in following the strictest precepts when 
the unfavorable surroundings and associations are 
not present. Take heed that if the ordinary virtues 
are practiced, there ensues profit of a material nature 
and profit of a spiritual nature ; the first of these 
may perchance be tardy of realization but the other 
is unfailing in its season. Take heed that success 
in life is normally the fruition of an inspired idea or 
purpose, while failure in general miay be traced to 
the mind's diversion from its inspiration or the 
narrowing of an original intent to purely selfish 
ends. Have faith in the laws and portents of nature 
and be thou assured that no aspiration is implanted 
in a human breast that hath not possibilities of real- 
ization. Be considerate of the family relationships, 
encouraging lawful marriage and the support of off- 
spring. Knov/ ye that for the additional cares and 
duties necessarily incurred in the support of a family, 
thou art rewarded with sentiments that ennoble the 
mind and experiences that will profit the soul's 
future estate, and that for inexcusable celibacy 
nature manifests her displeasure by turning faculties 
normally affording the chiefest pleasures of life into 
resources of bodily suffering and evil incentives. 
Lend no encouragement to predictions of national 
disaster through over-population, but maintain con- 
fidence in nature's ability to adjust the fertility ot 
the race to the capacities of the earth to support 
Be helpful to thy fellow men and charitable to those 
having suffered misfortune. Direct thine almsgiving 



142 Commands and Admonitions. 



intelligently ; for those who give indiscriminately 
may be accounted charitable but those who devise 
methods for lessening the causes of poverty or who 
make permanent provision for the support of the 
maimed and unsightly are true philanthropists. 



Book XI. 



The Origin and Development of Religious Princi= 
ciples, Doctrines and Creeds. 



CHAPTER I. 

CHARACTERISTICS AND METHODS OF THE PRIMITIVE SAGES, 

When the language of any of the races or tribes 
of past ages had attained such capacities of expres- 
sion as to enable historic or traditional records, 
there came forward certain individuals possessed of 
a penchant for the occult and the egotism of 
leadership, who took upon themselves to dilineate 
methods of worship and to search out the propi- 
tious in nature as the basis of a moral code. These 
early sages interpreted natural phenomena for their 
rude followers, and though pursuing methods an- 
tagonistic in many respects to those suggested by 
modern reason, they nevertheless effected desirable 
restraints upon base passion and supplemented 
the prevalent awe of the supernatural w^ith a belief 
in future happiness for the soul. The uncouth men 
of these ages were invariably clamorous for evi- 
dences of super-human prowess from their religious 
leaders, and to satisfy their demands, the sage had 
not only to practice austerities to evolve a religious 



144 Origin mid Developtnent of Religion, 



fervor and an inspirationally quickened intellect, but 
also conjuring and miracle working. To effectually 
impress his savage brethren with any new inspiration 
or precept, the primitive sage must needs disguise 
human frailty within himself and proclaim his soul 
in communication with spiritual powers and further- 
more, lest he be pounced upon as a mere pretender, 
or in conformity with the demands of self susten- 
ance or the enlargement of his influence, it was 
necessary for him to practice the magical and decep- 
tive arts. Even while urged by the most commend- 
able motives that man in these ages could entertain, 
the primal sage found it necessary to develop the 
esoteric occult through abnormal bodily conditions 
and the entranced and controlled intellect, and the 
exoteric occult through an acquired manipulative 
skill and, moreover, to enshroud these combined 
qualities with symbolisms that common and unpre- 
pared minds might not, through any obscure glim- 
merings of Deific truth, be led into hasty and pro- 
fane conclusions. Thus fastings and incantations 
and the use of drugs to subjugate the physical nature 
and to induce an inspirational tenor of intellect, as 
practiced by the sages themselves, became the rout- 
ine advocated for every aspirant toward high spiri- 
tual attainments; which austerities, however, were 
modified as the rudiments of a truer morality were 
introduced. The public teachings of the primal sage 
were commonly in adaptation to the demands of the 
ignorant and sensuous multitude and not a clear 
delineation of his highest spiritual perceptions ; 
which latter it were thought necessary to retain as 



Origin and Developmeiit of Religion, 



145 



the exclusive posession of a yogi or priestly caste 
until the minds of ordinary men should become so 
ripened and purified as not to profane the sacred 
truths of nature. After such manner the ancient 
sages came to deal with the same problems in nature 
and often arrived at virtually the same conclusions as 
have the philosophers of modern time; but their dis- 
coveries were either lost, or obscured with a bar- 
barous symbolism, because of the unprepared state of 
common humanity to accept clear interpretations. 
Hence, in the evolution of religious methods, the 
primitive sage was wont to subdue the ph}'sical pro- 
pensities and to bring about the necessary exaltation 
of his faculties, through self-imposed humiliations 
and austerities, that his prototype of modern time 
can dispense with through the possession of a finer 
body organization and qualities of mind giving facile 
inspiration and an easy supremacy to the righteous 
sympathies and emotions. 



CHAPTER H. 

RELIGIOUS SAGES OF THE PAST AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. 

Fj-om ages beyond the limits of human history 
till modern time, inspired men have appeared at 
proper intervals giving forth their visions of na- 
ture's truths and efficiently redeeming theology from 
the corroding effects of priesth' interpolation and 
the continuous changes in national character and 
language. As explorers and scientists have had to 



146 Origi?i and Development of Religion. 



laboriously penetrate material nature, to acquire 
exact knowledge of its component elements and its 
historic facts, so likewise have those of a spiritual 
discernment had to penetrate both the misty haze of 
their early religious training and the common fleshly 
bounds and sense the moving forces of spiritual ex- 
istence or trace the past and future estates of the 
soul. The greater achievement of the primal sage 
w^as the formulation of the discoveries of his inspira- 
tional moods into efficient dogmas and their trans- 
mission in the traditions of his race to succeeding 
generations; the greater achievement of his succes- 
sors in the order of sagehood, hath been the redis- 
covery of inspired truth and the re-vitalization of 
religious dogmas to accord with the intellectual 
status of the people. Few of the sages whose inspira- 
tions have changed or re-vitalized established sys- 
tems were accorded the honors they might justly 
claim during earth life; which rarely gave the people 
time to appreciate the principles advocated; but 
when the value of their teachings became generally 
known there was invariably an effort to attribute 
divine appointment and to append saintly dignities 
to their names. No sage hath escaped opposition 
from the intellectually obtuse and the religiously 
conservative; hence only those exceptionally faithful 
to their inspiration and such as made rapid progress 
in influencing their fellov/ men, succeeded in earthly 
fame or in having their principles handed down to 
posterity. The sages of every age have had their 
limiting environments, as, under even the most favor- 
ing circumstances, the days of one human life did 



Origi/i a?id Dcveloprnoit of Religioii. 147 



not suffice for the solving and depiction of the man}' 
sided truths in nature or of human errors in detail, 
their consequences and remedies. The majority of 
the members of the ancient yogi or priestly 
castes, being merely proficient in exoteric formal- 
ities, they persistently fell into mis-interpretations 
of inspired truth and repeatedh' led the minds of men 
into confusion and to the entertainment of irreligious 
thought; a more cultured modern priesthood have 
come to the assistance of the true sage and have 
labored to modify irregular theological precepts and 
to eradicate such formalities as serve only to bring 
religion into contempt with clear seeing and reason- 
ing men. The dependency of mankind upon sage- 
hood is apparent through the fact that whenever 
the truths evolved by primitive or medieval or 
modern sages have been obscured or lost through 
national calamities or degeneracy of the priest- 
hood or the introduction of elements ot for- 
eign religions, there resulted a spiritual retro- 
grade among the people which continued until 
there appeared other sages to re-discover and restore 
original principles and to arouse an intellectual im- 
petus for momentous events. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE CONFORMITY OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES TO CONTEMPORARY 
CIVILIZATION. 

From the time of the first vestiges of social 
organization among men there hath subsisted a 



148 Origin and Development of Religion, 



moral code, which in the details of its expression 
sheweth a certain conformity to the measure of 
excellence in character and the greatness of the pre- 
vailing civilization. The primal religions, even 
where originated in different regions of the earth 
and among tribes between whom there was no 
affiliation, being drawn from a common resource, 
the inspiration of sages, possessed a similarity in 
basic principles; which similarity was continued so 
long as the intellectual civilization of the tribes 
concerned held an equal footing. Whenever one 
tribe or class of men gained in general enlightenment 
over others, its religious code correspondingly 
advanced, so that there became an improved or 
reorganized creed suitable for the progressive trft)e 
or class while the old or unimproved system was 
perpetuated by the unprogressive, because still 
adapted to their condition of life. It hath been 
through the discarding of the religion of their prim- 
itive ancestors and adopting the tenets of a for- 
eign people, that some tribes and races have in- 
volved their theological history in confusion, 
while the creed of their adoption hath in man\^ 
instances suffered such modification in order to 
satisfy the characteristics of race and langu- 
age that the locality and the individuals as- 
sociated with its origin are rendered dif- 
ficult to trace. The inherent truths of nature, form- 
ing the basis of every religion, have been presented 
to men by successive sages but have invariabh^ 
become deflected or obscured by misguided teachers, 
and the people in consequence deprived of their 



Origin, and Development of Religion. 149 



beneficent purports. Doctrines in the languao;e of 
one age have ordinarily failed to inspire men of a sub- 
sequent age; the delineations of penalties for sin 
being frequently so extravagant in the older creed 
as to excite ridicule, or the methods of escape from 
merited penalties through ceremonial forms being 
too grotesque or arbitrary to elicit belief. With an 
advance in civilized methods in general, the bodily 
tortures and material sacrifices devised by the prim- 
i ive shaman as a necessary atonement and test of 
righteousness, invariably became modified to an 
assurance of spiritual rewards and penalties com- 
mensurate with merit. Each method hath had its 
special adaptation to prevailing conditions, the Deity 
of the barbaric mind being of necessit}- whimsical 
and arbitrary, after the manner of finite man, while 
the Deity of the intellectually cultured required ex- 
altation above passional prejudices and to be accred- 
ited with foreknowledge of ever}' human capacity 
and motive. An ancient creed becoming obnoxious 
through enlightenment of the popular mind, was 
first deserted b\' the more adventurous thinkers; 
then skepticism and materialistic theories prevailed 
and the conditions ripened for the advent of a sage 
who might found a new s}-stem or revitalize the old. 
The duration of a creed system with the tribe or 
nation hath ordinarih* depended upon the intrinsic 
merit or clearness of its principles, as compared with 
the creeds of adjacent peoples, the rapidit}' of 
advance in general enlightenment and the timeh' 
advent of sage minds to reform and keep theolog}' 
apace with material science. 



150 Origm and Dcvelopinent of Religion. 

CHAPTER IV. 

THE CONFLICT OF EXOTERIC RELIGION WITH IN^PIRATIuN 
AND REASON. 

Exoteric religion hath required of man the partial 
or complete extinguishment of his physical desires 
and propensities ; inspiration and reason reveals the 
need of mastery and governance of the desires and 
propensities by the intellect, not their severe re- 
pression or extinction. Exoteric religion hath de- 
manded a celibate priesthood ; inspiration and rea- 
son reveals that power of thought and benevolence of 
motive may even be enhanced in the teacher 
through the emotions and cares consequent to mar- 
riage. Exoteric religion hath advocated a self 
abased and a mendicant priesthood ; inspiration and 
reason reveals- that those who pursue a squalid and 
contemptible mode of life are not, as a rule, fit ex- 
amples for the young nor qualified to give religious 
instruction to their fellow men. Exoteric religion 
hath advocated homage to various deified or canon- 
ized personages and reputed them to act as interme- 
diaries between the Infinite and man ; inspiration 
and reason reveals that the entire devotional service 
should be rendered direct to . the Infinite. Exo- 
teric religion hath placed the souls of notable per- 
sons in the categ"orv of saints charo-ed with arbitrarv 
spiritual offices ; inspiration and reason intimates 
that the spiritual rank and vocation of the individual 
soul is effectually hidden from men and that homage 
paid to any finite being, however worthy, tends to 
estrange the human mind from the Infinite Exo- 



Origin and Development of Religion. 1 5 1 



teric religion hath taught irregular or abnormal re- 
incarnation of the human soul in the forms of ani- 
mals or men, in accordance with the whims of 
some petulant deity; inspiration and reason intimates 
one fleshly incarnation during a cycle measured by 
fixed laws of the universe and, moreover, that the 
soul hath certain eternal qualities that destines it to 
develop like racial potentialities and characteristic 
traits in each of its cycles. Exoteric religion hath 
asserted that because of a brief or seemingly un- 
profitable life on the material plane the soul should 
be entitled to re-incarnation ; inspiration and reason 
reveals that uninspired man may not determine 
whether a life hath been profitable or unprofitable in 
nature's estim.ate, and that no time or opportunity 
is repeated for those who fail to utilize the advan- 
tages of any phase of their animative cycle. Exo- 
teric religion hath designated warlike conflicts be- 
tween inhabitants of the spiritual realms; inspiration 
and reason reveals that the employment of com- 
bative force, as we understand it, is confined to the 
material plane and is due to trespass and trans- 
gression and the necessities of physical existence. 
Exoteric religion hath advocated austerities to the 
extent of bodily privation and affliction; inspiration 
and reason, while revealing the inestimable value of 
rigid morality and the temperate restriction of ever}' 
appetite and function, reveals also the folly of im- 
posing self-denials and afflictions other than such as 
are unavoidable in worthy activities. Exoteric reli- 
gion hath asserted the intermarriage of gods with be- 
ings in the flesh; inspiration and reason discloses no 



152 Origin a?td Developme7it of Religion. 



contingency whereby such relations might take place 
between the Infinite and any form of animated life. 
Exoteric religion hath exalted the circumstance of 
the occasional intercommunion of embodied with 
disembodied souls, and some have advocated deriv- 
ing from this source all necessary information of the 
divine or spiritual ; inspiration and reason reveals in- 
tercommunion of the embodied with the disembodied 
as being difficult and perplexing and valuable, under 
ordinary circumstances, only in the confirmation it 
affords of a spiritual futurity for the soul of man. 
Exoteric religion hath attached vast importance to 
the forms of a man's belief and to his punctuality in 
the performance of ceremonies; inspiration and rea- 
son attaches a more serious import to the intellec- 
tual talents and the personal morality, in that they 
measure the glory and happiness in both the fleshly 
and the spiritual estates. Exoteric religion hath at- 
tached special importance to formalities in prayer 
and the utterance of prescribed words and phrases; 
inspiration and reason reveals the innermost senti- 
ment of the soul and not the formalities or words 
employed as that which finds favor with the Infinite. 
Exoteric religion hath attached high importance 
to the name by w^hich Deity is known and wor- 
shipped; inspiration and reason reveals that a name 
or designation of Deity is important according to the 
sentiment of heart and mind it calls forth, as, when 
suggestive of the most ennobling traits conceivable 
to man, there is profit in its contemplation, but, if 
suggestive of harsh or petulant or animal-like traits, 
then is there no profit in its contemplation. Exoteric 



Origin and Development of Religion, 1 5 3 



religion hath declared the utterance of words and 
commands by Deity to certain prophets or chosen 
men; inspiration and reason reveals that Deific 
power speaks through material phenomena and in- 
spiration and that Its purposes are not voiced in 
human speech, because of the impossibility of uncoii- 
trovertable or fixed orders upon any department or 
component of the material world. Exoteric religion 
hath fostered superstitious fear through the depic- 
tion ot invisible demons tempting men to sin; in- 
spiration and reason portrays retributive potentialities 
in nature and delineates the many evil incentives 
that may afflict the human mind through an unwise 
application or want of control over its faculties. 
Exoteric religion hath depicted gods that bestow ar- 
bitrary favors and w^ho decree that the majority of 
humankind shall be consigned to eternal torture; in- 
spiration and reason discloses the Infinite to exert no 
intentional or arbitrary influence upon individuals, 
but to ordain an infallible karmic system which 
visits retribution and reward according to deserts. 
Exoteric religion hath assumed certain races, tribes 
or sects to possess especial favor with Deity ; in- 
spiration and reason portrays the races, tribes and 
sects of humankind as being what eternal law 
and material circumstances have made them and 
therefore ineligible either to the especial favor 
or the enmity of Deity. Exoteric religion 
hath declared the greater part of human ac- 
tivity offensive to Deity; inspiration and reason dis- 
closes that no human thought or action, however 
misguided, can be directly offensive to Deity, be- 



154 Origin and Development of Religion. 

cause of the karmic provision in nature for the even- 
tual compensation of e\'ery wrong by whomsoever is 
responsible for it. 



CHAPTER V. 

THE CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTABILITY IMPOSED BY POPULAR SENTI- 
MENT UPON THE CREED OF AN ENLIGHTENED AGE. 

The religion meeting the demands of an 
enlightened age must needs influence men to strive 
for w^isdom and self ennoblement, for generous sen- 
timents toward the w^eak and unfortunate, and like- 
wise for emotions that refine and spiritualize the 
soul. It must needs expel or modify the arrogant 
dogmas of an older civilization and exalt the princi- 
ples of wisdom, justice and affection above cowering 
fear or abject servility to prescribed forms and 
ceremonies. It must needs assure a certain respon- 
sibility for the enlightenment and good repute of 
the people; making such appeals to the human heart 
and reason as will add to the attractiveness of law 
abiding and orderly conduct. It must needs quicken 
the human consciousness as to the right and the 
wTong, inspire hope in the soul's futurity and present 
an exalted conception of Deity. It must needs in- 
terpret the basic truths of nature in lofty and incon- 
testable terms, so that the asservations of its dogmas 
have no conflict with but corroborate and w^elcome 
the deductions of material science. It must needs 
be conditioned to advantage both the progressive 



Origin and Development of Religion, 155 



and ennobled and the defective and the lowly, con- 
tributing to the success even of their worldly designs 
through instilling an aversion to untoward and vic- 
ious indulgences. It must needs satisfy human rea- 
son as to the purports of material existence and 
give an intelligible outline of the career and destiny 
of the soul: so that men placing themselves under 
its teachings may go through life with an assurance 
that they are worthy and permanent factors of the 
immeasurable and eternal universe. 



Book XII. 



Psalms. 



CHAPTER I. 

GLURIFICATL'X OF THE INFINITE. 

Under the tranquility wrought upon our faculties 
through devotional meditation, we perceive. O In- 
finite! man\- vast potential energies traversing Th}* 
universal boundaries that are defth* hidden from the 
uninspired consciousness. We perceive one order 
of subtle elements extending forth from the central 
Heaven and invigorating the material world, and 
another order returning from the material world to 
the Heavenh' source: and our inspiration reveals 
these diverse waves of impalpable energ}' as mereh' 
different manifestations of an unbroken cycle or 
endless chain of existence. We perceive that when 
the conditions of the world demand a new and 
special order of creatures, the resources of Hea\-en 
ma\^ readily supply a primal genera, impelled 
arduousl}- upon its mission and endowed with 
capacities to develop in due course the necessar\- 
bodily functions. We perceive each essential force 
in nature ordained to proper seasons and so accur- 
ately balanced in its processes as rarely to afflict man 



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157 



or any portion of the material world b\' sudden or 
arbitrary impulses. We perceive how the human 
ego may traverse vast distances in heavenly space, 
going forth toward materiality an unconscious 
elemental and returning thence conscious and enlight- 
ened, and having rendered throughout its perpetual 
orbit potential services in nature — the greater part of 
which it as little understands as a mere corpuscle of 
the blood of the mortal bod}' understands its serv- 
ices as it traverses the venous and arterial system. 
We perceive in the orderh' composition of Thy sub- 
universes, as in perpetual symmetry the}' rest within 
their assigned limits in space, a certain analogy to 
embodied mian; for each hath an intellectual prin- 
ciple to incite and to govern and a material prin- 
ciple that supplies a basis for physical organization. 
We perceive, under our exalted senses, an essential 
medial element projecting outward from the central 
Heaven and pervading the worlds of the sub-uni- 
verse, which hath the function of an inspirational 
reservoir and from which finite minds derive powers 
conducive to their intellectual and spiritual nourish- 
ment. This far reaching ethereal element appeareth 
to suffice both the needs of intervening spiritual 
zones and of material planes; forming as it were, an 
elastic stratum through which one order of nature 
approaches and partakes of the other. In function 
having a semblance to certain attenuated nerve 
fluids or magnetisms of the human bod}', connecting 
the impalpable soul with the grosser organization of 
flesh and blood, this medial principle serves as a 
vehicle enabling supplication and response between 



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Psalms. 



the finite and infinite. Special nerve lines apper- 
taining to both finite entities and infinite faculties of 
the sub-universe, intersect this medial element and 
their effectiveness, as concerns the finite individual, 
is enhanced by religious or praiseworth}^ activites 
and deteriorated by irreligious or unworthy 
activities. We perceive that after the manner of a 
common plant which absorbs a rarified gas from 
the material atmosphere and organizes it into its body 
growth, our finite minds may penetrate Thy 
impalpable domains and derive the essentials to 
intellectual and spiritual unfoldment. We perceive, 
O Infinte! that through the interblending of thy 
primal factors in different combinations there are 
engendered a multitude of subordinate chemical 
agencies and vital and spiritual elements, and that 
these agencies and elements come to constitute the 
ordinary perceptible conditions of minerals, climate 
and fleshly organisms and likewise the series of 
spiritual heavens extending from the earth plane to 
the great central Paradise. 



CHAPTER 11. 
GLORIFICATION OF THE INFINITE SOUL. 

In the distant ages of the past, O Soul of the 
universe ! thy wisely ordained powers didst 
evoke from the primal sun a great nebulus stream 
as the basic matter of a system of planet worlds. 
Thou ^didst then apportion this outflow into dis- 



Psalms, 159 

tantl}' separated bodies, endowing each with 
certain self- regulating and evolutionary capacities, 
so that the greater masses became true planets 
and the lesser masses their satellite moons; and 
all these thou didst adjust to suitable orbital move- 
ments in space. Then the forces and elements of the 
primal Earth thou didst so adjust that upon its surface 
there should become land and sea, with fitting con- 
ditions for m\'riads of life forms. And the turbid 
and hitherto unstable surface of the Earth thou 
didst becalm or diversify into measurably restful and 
volcanic areas, so that the solid formations ceased to 
be continualh- rent asunder through subterranean 
movements. And the dense and heated cloud stra- 
tum that had encompassed and endarkened the 
terrestrial surface for long ages, thou didst in due 
time dissolve and cause its superabundant gases to 
be deposited in useful mineral forms. Thus didst 
thou change the endarkened Earth surface into a 
peaceful world, adorned with trees and grass and 
watered with timely rains and flowing rivers, where- 
b}' living creatures might disport themselves and 
pursue their varied designs in nature. Elemental 
souls thou didst ordain to come upon the Earth in 
their season and scatter themselves forth broadcast 
to germinate and produce their kind in the lands and 
seas. After a progressive system didst thou enable 
in one epoch fitting conditions for the inferior 
plants and insects and reptile monsters and in an- 
other epoch an adaptation for birds and beasts of 
great size, which prepared the lands and waters for 
successively more perfect types. From the primal 



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Psalms, 



animalistic man thou didst evolve races successively 
more intelligent, who battled with and obtained 
supremacy over all other creatures of the Earth. 
And thou didst in a fitting age evolve the man of in- 
tellect and of veneration, who in his first experience 
with the basic religious impulses worshipped mate- 
rial objects or the phenomena about him beyond the 
fathom of his intellect. Then in later epochs thou 
didst evolve sages to give spiritual instruction to 
men that the enlightenment and culture of modern 
civilization might be attained. Thou hast been to 
man in all ages a directive and governing principle, 
as the will is to the faculties of the human mind and 
body a governing and directive principle; whereby 
we perceive it thy function to devise, to impel and 
to receive expressions of thanksgiving, while it is 
our function to receive impulsions, to act and to give 
forth gratitude. In all these events and processes, 
O Soul of the universe! thou did'st have in view 
man's chiefest interests, so that when he had attained 
his estate as the most intelligent of thy creation, 
thou didst magnanimously ignore his perverse 
methods in thy eagerness to make of him a com- 
pletely enlightened and orderly being when the 
Earth should attain its millenial estate. 



CHAPTER III. 
GLORIFICATION OF INFINITE JUSTICE. 



Thou dost maintain, O Infinite Justice! an un- 
changing and consistent attitude toward man, not- 



Psalms, 



i6i 



withstandincr the teaching's of relictions which charge 
themselves to give thee familiar names and to ap- 
pend to thee base human or animal traits. Th}' eter- 
nal s\-stem ordains that enlightened man shall find a 
comfort and a solace in his religious devotions and 
that he shall perceive it necessary and profitable to 
glority thee as his superior and directive agency. 
Thou hast evidenth' impelled certain men to abstain 
from the common pleasures of life, that they might 
the more efficiently receive and disseminate ideas or 
engage themselves in gleaning the inspired views of 
the age for the enlightenment of their worldly 
brethren. Thou didst seemingly impel men in past 
ages to build monuments and to inscribe records of 
their beliefs, that those who came after them might 
ascertain their creed and also the moving forces of 
their civilization. Our inspiration suggests that 
thou hast ordained special incentives for each suc- 
cessive plane wherein the soul unfolds its conscious- 
ness, and. as on the earth there is a relish for the 
labors and rewards of material life, there must needs 
follow in the spheres of spirit a relish for a series of 
intellectual and emotional offices, while even where 
the soul hath been sated with the experiences of its 
c}-cle and is near the culmination of its Paradisial 
inheritance, it finds yet a new ardor in the forthcom- 
ing effacement of its consciousness and its embark- 
ation upon another c\xle of services in nature. 
Hence we are disposed to reject such dogmas as 
portray thee fickle and changeable in thy deal- 
ings with man; believing instead thy purposes to be 
permanent and not to be swerved by the actions of 



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Psalms. 



any finite power. \\'e reject such dogmas as portray 
thee delighting in destructive or self-injurious sacri- 
fices or in offerings of animal flesh and blood; believ- 
ingthy favor should be won through a penitence that 
compensates without unnecessary self-injury or the 
taking of animal lives. W'e reject such dogmas as 
clothe thee with the fleshly passions or the baser 
qualities of men ; believing these portrayals due to 
the incompetency of the human mind to reflect thy 
qualities in the proper forms of speech. We reject 
such dogmas as give thee functions of sex and gen- 
eration ; holding instead a belief that while thou 
shouldst maintain a paternal attitude toward human- 
kind, there may be no such relationship as leads to 
an immaculate conception or the birth of a demi- 
god. We reject such dogmas as hamper progres- 
sive ideas, so that advanced thinkers hesitate to pub- 
licly express their convictions ; believing that reli- 
gion, as any philosophy or science, may be interpo- 
lated with misleading statements and become need- 
ful of reform. We reject such dogmas as declare 
that only the rarely found sage or prophet hath re- 
ceived divine inspiration; believing that each human 
mind is inspirationally connected with Infinite 
powers; though admitting that only those of sage- 
like qualities are able to consistently define certain 
hidden principles or from their impressions to con- 
struct a theological code. We reject also, O In- 
finite Justice I such dogmas as describe man's posi- 
tion in the universe as one of abject dependence; 
believing that he does not exist merely as a con- 
cession from some overruling power, but that he hath 



Psalms. 163 

eternal and inalienable rights as a permanent and 
serviceable factor in the economy of nature. 



CHAPTER IV. 
GLORIFICATION OF INFINITE LOVE. 

Thy features, O Infinite Lovel denote affection, 
heart yearning and inestimable good will toward 
man. Thou art opposed to ostentation, to the dis- 
play of vulgarities and to every vengeful and malig- 
nant proceeding. Thou art manifestly sympathetic and 
forbearing and averse even to the strong and neces- 
sary measures that unqualified Justice suggests; dis- 
posed to forgive when common equity demands the 
infliction of penalties. Like unto a true mother who 
would exonerate her child whatever its follies, thou 
art constantly attendant upon us with thy solicitude 
and though, peradventure, thou canst not interpose 
direct with any decree in nature in our behalf, we 
realize it within thy province to inspire the erring 
heart of man with the seeds of penitence and with a 
measure of thy kindly spirit, that it may be brought 
into close relationship with Infinite principles. 
While other Deific faculties draw forth our admira- 
tion and reverence, we find our hearts peculiarly 
softened anci filled with holy ecstacy through con- 
templation of thy benevolent attitude toward man. 
Thou art verily the God sought for by the human 
mind throughout the dark ages of the past, when 
the baser elements in nature were rife and thy true 



Psalms. 



character obscured with erroneous teachings. We 
find thee dissociated from pomp and power, a meek 
and unquestioning savior that despiseth not the 
lowliest of mortals— a Christ not of fleshly birth but 
an eternal factor in the universe and within access 
of every finite being. We perceive thee more broth- 
erly than parentive, attending us in our sorrows, in- 
viting the closest confidences and inspiring us with 
the incentive of good will to all men. Thou art 
our regenerator as well as our protector from the 
exactive and retributive powers in nature that would 
annihilate us for our misdeeds. Thou art to us an 
expostulatory and advisory companion through our 
earthly and our spiritual lives, and even when we 
have attained our maturity in Paradisial realms, we 
have assurance that thou wilt still be with us to rejoice 
in our purity and to join with us in the contempla- 
tion of the splendors there revealed to our enrap- 
tured souls. 



CHAPTER V. 

INVOCATION OF INFINITE LOVE. 

Inspire us to preserve ourselves, O Love prin- 
ciple of the universe 1 from sinful thought, from 
words of evil import and from a disposition to con- 
tend with or to injure our fellow beings. Inspire us 
with a true sense of our duty toward all our fellow 
mxcn, to be charitable and lenient with their short 
comings and if we come to hold any office of trust, 



Psal})is. 



that we ma\- perform efficient ser\"ice. keeping the 
minds of our subordinates tranquil and obedient and 
maintaining the public confidence. Inspire us. if 
we come to serve in the capacity of sages ^or 
teachers, to perform worthil}* our religious func- 
tions and to delineate theological principles that 
prepare those under our influence or guidance for 
their spiritual future. Inspire our religious fervor 
and spiritual insight, to the end that we ma\' con- 
quer the flesh}' impulses and maintain an apprecia- 
tion of \'irtue and of religious principles. Inspire 
us with consideration for those who ma\' be regarded 
as weaker or more baseh' inclined than ourselves, 
and when we incur the env}' or misguided wrath of 
alien or uncultured men. enable us to refrain from 
animosity toward them and to display forbearance 
and a spirit of benevolence as occasion may 
demand. Strengthen our faith in thy interests and 
in the capacities of nature to reward righteousness 
and to adequately punish evil doers. Inspire us 
with resignation of spirit when thwarted in our 
desires or when misfortunes appear to beset our 
course in life and ^"ive us courao"e to beein after 
each defeat upon new and. if needs be, upon lowh' 
lines. Inspire us with a consciousness of our higher 
obligations and of our importance as serviceable 
elements in nature: that we may come to rejoice in 
honorable and dutiful effort whatever the imme- 
diate consequences. Inspire us to be patient with 
our meagre spiritual knowledge and content us with 
a belief that our chief present concern is with the 
earth plane and that deeper penetration of the in- 



Psalms. 



visible world, except we be sages laboring upon new 
doctrines, could confer no especial benefit upon us. 
Hearken unto these our prayers, O Infinite Love! as 
thy wisdom shall see fit, in that we may consciously 
and efficiently fulfil our mission in the earthly estate 
and give our souls the most suitable preparation for 
the future. 



Book XIII, 
Allegory. The Tour of the Star Spirits. 



SCENE I. 

Ilbarama. — Upper Spiritual Zone of the Earth. 
Elomiel. — Court of the Zoraba, Ibrim. 

Two strange spirits enter Elomiel and are presented unto 
Ibrim. 

1st spirit, E?w2ii7i : Good will and greeting, most 
worthy Zoraba I We have journeyed thither from 
the planet Iltromene, from near the great sun 
Anilam, as it appeareth in your heavens, and our 
purpose is to acquaint ourselves with certain special 
features of thy world, whose position in the planet- 
ary system is such in the present age as to afford a 
peculiar interest to students of the school to which 
we belong. 

Ibrim. My assurance, I am well pleased that 
scholars of distant Iltromene have seen fit to visit 
our fair world and I trust your discoveries here will 
compensate your long journey. Go forth whither- 
soever thou wilt within our realms and every 
resource of knowledge will be free to thy uses. And 



Allegory. 



to begin with. Iltromenes', let me recommend as an 
assistant in thy researches and as a guide "to the 
most favorable localities, a learned native spirit, 
Gebril b}' name, whom I have known to desire the 
occasion for such a tour as you propose. 

2nd Spirit, Ittigiir : 'Tis very considerate of thee, 
good Zoraba. to forestall thus our needs. We 
gladly accept the companionship of Gebril and will, 
moreover, place ourselves obediently under his 
guidance. 

Gebril : And I gladly accept my appointment, 
for, as our Zoraba hath said, it is such a mission as 
I have yearned after. I will request the stipulation, 
however, that certain features of our journeys and 
the views you may entertain of our world system, be 
so outspoken as to enable me to make ready notes 
in the language of men, that after your departure 
homeward I may inspire some one on the material 
plane to publish them. 

Enoiiin and Ittigiir: We are agreeable to thy 
stipulation. 

Gebril: Then I will ask thee to make choice as to 
whether we shall begin with an investigation of the 
material plane and then proceed to the spiritual 
zones successively, or take up first our planet's his- 
torical records, as kept within this realm, and latterly 
turn our attention to the material and spiritual con- 
ditions now subsistent: 

E?ioui?i: We are eager first to know the pro- 
cesses of your world's primal origin and evolution 
and to obtain an historical summary of the whole 
planetary system, as }'our records may delineate; for 



Allegory. 



169 



we have heard that the instruments and facilties for 
certain observations here are most excellent, in com- 
parison with those of other worlds within our 
quarter of the universe. After this historical retro- 
spect we would be pleased to proceed with the 
material world as it novv' exists and latterly v/ith the 
different spiritual zones. 



SCENE II. 

A CONSERVATORIUM OF PLANETARY HiSTORY. 

Gebnl : Your readings from the chronology here 
will show ten ]\Iethelian ages, commencing with the 
time when the material elements of the Xephelian 
planets were first hurled forth from the parent body 
through the orbital chasm they now occupy, till the 
present epoch when we behold a radiant central sun 
surrounded by noble planets, and our beloved world 
endowed with verdure covered lands and placid seas 
and with an innumerable variety of animal and spir- 
itual life. According to the theor}' portra}'ed before 
you, when Infinite nature was prepared for the 
evolution of the Xephelian planets, there primarily 
took place within the great solar mass, then as now 
occupying the centre of a vast chasm in the universe, 
a series of mighty outbursts which sent whirling- 
through space huge volumes of gaseous and nebul- 
ous matter. The matter thus ejected from the over- 
burdened solar reservoir discloses the material basis 
from which our planet worlds have been constructed. 



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Allegory, 



Now by the high wrought appliances here at your 
command you may view in brief panorama the origin 
and evolution of the Earth, and if you describe, 
each of you in turn, while I take notes, we may all 
three be entertained and instructed and neither of us 
should become wearied or lax of interest. 



SCENE III. — First Methelian Age. 
The Beginning of the Present Kalpa Cycle. 

Enoitiii: The record sheweth great nebulous bodies 
moving swiftly about a central fiery mass, the primal 
sun, each as it pursues its impetuous gyrations through 
space being marked by fearful lines and whirlpools 
of the turbulent elements upon its borders. Within 
each proper nebula is the continual flashing of elec- 
trical currents and the resonance of deep thunders, 
while tempestuous streams of rarified elements 
course through its parts, as if seeking to prevent 
every actual tendency toward planetary formations. 
Tremendous chemical explosions reverbrate in the 
train of these mighty nebulae as they distribute them- 
selves through the Nephelian chasm, while their ele- 
ments are subjected to continuous change and set to 
new activities. Now the closing epoch of this Me- 
thelian age reveals each nebula of the Methelian 
chasm permeated by ethereal gases and vapors and 
stirred by mighty internal convulsions that oft times 
envelopes the outer stratum with a fiery radiance, and 
thus the solar system in its entirety becomes a re- 



Allegory. 



markable celestial object, as viewed from distant re- 
gions of the stellar universe. 

Gcbril : Accordin^^ to the theor\' herein divulcred 
the same matter, or its equivalent in bulk, which is 
thus ejected from the solar nucleus, is employed 
each kalpa c\-cle in the creation of planet worlds 
that after fulfilling their functions as sustainers of 
life are drawn back to the permanent nucleus and 
their substances therein reoro-anized for the succeed- 
ino; cvcle. 



SCENE — Secoxd }vIetheliax Age. 
Nebulous Stage of the Xepheliax Planets. 

Ittigur: Certain new ethereal forces from the 
central regions of the sub-universe now enter the 
contines of the Xephelian system, communicating in 
their course a peculiar impetus to the encircling cos- 
mic bodies. These forces constitute the pioneer 
soul principles and their chief function appears to 
be to magnetize matter and to impart a certain indi- 
vidualit}' to each substance, leading to the hnal sep- 
aration of the planetar}' ma-ses and their arrange- 
ment at convenient distances from each other in 
space. Now the nebulae that had once filled the 
Xephelian chasm with ungainly masses and vast 
cloud jets hath been effectually resolved into co- 
herent groups that are becoming more condensed 
and s\-mmetrical in outline. The chasm is redolent of 
strano;e energ-ies; the o-reat fierv masses roll onward 



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Allegory, 



into proper orbits and each attains to swift and re- 
gular movements. Now the central nucleus of the 
system hath become possessed of the well ordered 
methods of a sun, w^hile encircling it are the incipient 
planets, and toward the close of this age it appeareth 
as if a divine impetus had been interblended with 
every atom of base matter, while each special en- 
ergy and element is set to some important dut}\ 
Under the controlling influence of the solar luminary 
the planets hasten to concentrate their substance 
matter, while obstructive meteoric or nebulous frag- 
ments in space are gathered up and added to the 
greater bodies of the system or fashioned into satel- 
lites for them. 

Gebril: While at this stage of your investiga- 
tions it may profit you to take note that according 
to the scheme here disclosed, there obtains a pivotal 
centre of the sub-universe, about which a grand 
array of solar and planet systems perform their evo- 
lutions; it being at the same time the directive 
source to which every spiritual force and entity owes 
allegiance. Certain powers w^ithin this great focus 
have thus control over all the material bodies of the 
sub-universe, compelling their obedience to proper 
attractions and repulsions, reorganizing world sys- 
tems then withdrawing their vital and spiritual ele- 
ments at appointed intervals. 



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SCENE \'. — Third !\Ietheliax Age. 
The Sun — Xephela and its Planets. 

Enouin: Since the stupendous eruptions that 
hurled the planetary elements into space, the sun 
Xephela. hath gathered its components into compact 
mass and the chemicals of its interior mechanism 
now generate the radiant streams that supply the 
surrounding planets with an essential energ\-. As 
the solar light becomes yet more refined and orderl\* 
in its processes, it is qualihed to engender a genial 
climatic condition upon the planets. Xephela thus 
becomes a brilliant star of the firmament, adding 
its share toward the far reaching glory of the 
sub-universe, while the planets now S}-mmetrically 
arranged about it. enter upon their initiatory phases 
of life sustaining worlds. And now reaching forth 
into space from the great solor orb. the planets, 
though still looseh' constructed and unshapeh' in ap- 
pearance, are assuming by degrees the normal 
globular outlines, while their satellite moons begin 
to exert the peculiar influences assigned to them in 
nature. 



SCENE VI. — Fourth ]\Iethelian Age. 

DeVELOPEMENT OF THE PlANET EaRTH 

Ittigtir: The planet Earth is apparently an un- 
gainly bod\- still, whose basic elements are in a plas- 
tic or molten state and pervaded by heat evolved 
through chemical activities within its mass. There 



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Alles^ory. 



appeareth, however, a beginning of certain orderly 
combinations of primal elemei ts causing the denser 
substances to gravitate toward the interior while 
those more rarified or gaseous flow outward to the 
surface. Its exterior shows an attainment of the 
spherical in contour, and, as chemical combinations 
proceed, a solid stratum begins to manifest itself as 
the basis of future lands, and an outer envelope of 
vapors and gases, the basis of future waters and 
atmosphere. The minerals of the incipient world 
are yet molten, while the gases and vapors for 
future rivers and seas are maintained aloof from the 
heated surface as a dense and all pervading cloud 
stratum, giving the planet an apparent bulk far ex- 
ceeding its modern dimensions. There resounds 
throughout the primal world the constant hissing 
and roaring of active chemical agencies and seismic 
tremblings and mighty outbursts from the heated 
interior, while vivid lightnings and appalling 
thunders, continuously rend the enveloping atmos- 
pheric screen. 



SCENE VII. — Fifth Methelian Age. 
Creation of Land and Water. 

Eno7iin: The Earth as a planetary body hath 
reached its great cyclic aphelion, or outermost ex- 
tension in the system, and is begun to be attracted 
inward so as to improve its climatic connection 
with the solar rays. Its surface crust in process of 



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175 



formation is frequently disturbed by the active 
underlying forces, while the atmospheric stratum, 
surcharged with much base matter ejected forth 
from the interior regions, still hovers aloof over the 
seething mineral mass. There is now^ perceptible a 
peculiar combination of atmospheric forces that 
greatly facilitates the enlargement, of the area of 
solid formations. The great stratum of vapors over- 
shadowing the denser minerals begins to take new 
forms of activity and to precipitate torrential rains, 
creating rivers and seas wherever the terrestrial 
heat is not still sufficient to hurl it steaming 
back into the endarkened skies. Thus the aerial 
sphere that had hitherto sustained a far reaching 
stratum of sublimated elements, becomes now^ 
rapidly disburdened and its superfluous gases and 
extraneous mineral dust descends with the pre- 
valent rains and assists in cooling and solidifyingthe 
land surface. The atmosphere in due course 
becomes so relieved of its baser elements as to per- 
mit the sun's rays to penetrate through and at in- 
tervals to shine upon the land. The atmospheric 
turbulence increases apace, the rains descend in im- 
measurable torrents and cloud vapors rebound up- 
ward from regions still influenced by subterranean 
heat. Now in that which is given as the terminat- 
ing epoch of this age, the solid crust of the Earth is 
near complete and the waters rest complacently 
thereon. This solid formation is obscured b)' the 
waters because of its but slightly ruffled exterior 
which hath not yet the stability for mountainous 
elevations. 



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Allegory. 



SCENE VIII.— Sixth Metheliax Age. 
Creation of ]\[ountaixs, Seas and Rivers 

Ittizur: Now a solid crust hath been formed 
over the whole surface of the Earth and the vapors 
of the atmosphere have descended upon it and 
covered it as with one interminable sea. Volcanic 
outbursts are wont to frequently disturb the waters 
of this boundless sea, producing fier}^ jets and huge 
rushing billows, while here and there islands are 
heaved up but lacking firmness of base quickly 
sink down again beneath the waves. There appears 
a constant shrinkage of parts of the Earth crust, 
consequent upon evaporation of heated elements 
from the interior, which causes the waters to rush 
hither and thither in great agitation, and, as the 
cooling process advances, there is a corresponding 
increase in the violence of the outbursts that take 
place. In time mountainous elevations and yawn- 
ing depressions are formed amid tremors and rumbl- 
ings that threaten to rend the planet assunder, and 
this turbulence hath no abatement until the primal 
division of the land from the sea is effected. The 
atmosphere is yet attainted with extraneous gases 
and with smoke and dust from innumerable craters, 
while many seas still affected by terrestrial heat 
send mists and vapors upward that condense and 
return in an almost perpetual rain, so that rivers of 
tremendous size overrun the land. Separation of 
the land and sea hath been the noteworthy achieve- 
ment of the age, and as the terminating epoch 
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currents are established. The heroic methods of 
these ages appear essential to the creation of a 
proper surface stratum, giving elastic formations as 
a protection against excessive volcanic irruptions 
and likewise for the favorable blending of the 
Earth's mineral elements. Volcanic activity hath 
a decline toward the close of the age; the waters are 
rapidly cooled and the atmosphere is become so 
purified that the sunlight streams down unimpeded 
upon the rugged lands and tumultuous seas. 



SCENE IX. — Seventh Methelian Age. 
Preparation of the Earth's Surface Strata. 

Enouin: The lands of the earth present a torn 
and desolate appearance, with their lofty granitic 
hills sombre hued and lifeless and their sterile plains 
encroached by numerous lakes and swollen stream.s- 
The atmospheric forces are seen to attack and to 
disintegrate the mountain rocks while abundant 
rains serve to carry the resultant sands into the val- 
leys. The glacial epochs, whose phenomena were not 
hitherto remarkable owing the paucity of land above 
the sea level and to the volcanic heat pervading the 
Earth's surface, have now attained a strikingly po- 
tential and far reaching influence. There is seen to 
occur at regular periods the extreme declination of 
the Earth's poles in their position toward the sun, 
which in effect gives to one polar hemisphere a 
heated climate and to the other polar hemisphere a 
corresponding age of climatic frigidity. Hence, 



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when the northern pole of the Earth hath attained 
the extreme outward declination, a glacial age pre- 
vails in the north polar hemisphere while the sou- 
thern pole, necessarily at the same time undergoing 
its extreme inward declination, finds its regions 
round about rejoicing in a torrid climate. Thus the 
Earth oscillates upon its orbit in such manner as to 
give one of the poles an inward declination with a 
warm climate for a period embracing many thou- 
sands of years, then follows its outward declination 
with a rigorous climate for a like number of years. 
During the epoch of extreme declination, the 
pole projected from the sun becomes overspread 
with huge glaciers from the accumulated snow and 
ice, which grind the primal mountain rocks into soil 
that the floods of a warmer age take up and dis- 
tribute over the earth, thereby commingling the 
minerals of many regions and placing them advan- 
tageously for the life forms of later time. Lofty 
mountain ranges are torn asunder and their debris 
conveyed to distant valleys and depressions, thereby 
rounding off the angular peaks, creating symmetrical 
hills and filling up gaping chasms which volcanic 
outbursts have made. In the equatorial zones of 
the Earth, not perceptibly affected by polar oscilla- 
tions and beyond the reach of the glaciers, the ac- 
tion of solar heat and of wind and rain appears suf- 
ficient for the necessary disintegration and leveling 
down of mountain rocks. After this order, as the 
inward declination of a pole proceeds, its glaciers 
vanish away, the rivers are gradually narrowed into 
proper channels while the sun gives forth a mea- 



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sured light and heat. Now as the terminal period of 
this age rolls by, the lands of the Earth, though 
still barren and washed by fierce torrents and vast 
rivers, begin to attain a stage of development appar- 
ently favorable to the sustenance of the lower f( rms 
of life. 



SCENE X. — Eighth ^ylETHELiAN Age. 
Origin of Life on the Earth. 

Ittigtir: In the beginning of this age the myriads 
of elementals, functioned to germinate the primal 
life forms, are seen streaming forth from the sub- 
universal reservoir to the material world. These 
elementals, upon reaching the earth plane, scatter 
themselves forth broadcast throughout the lands and 
waters and proceed instinctively to attract and 
assimilate necessary material elements for their 
bodily organisms. In the processes of embod)'ing 
themselves, the elementals appertaining to the her- 
baceous orders or such as have functions wherewith 
to extract their nutrition and the substances for vital 
growth direct from material nature, are the pioneers 
in the evolution of life and following them are intel- 
ligent m.oving types as their parasites. Thus it is 
perceived how one order of elementals deriving or 
sustaining material life from surrounding inorganic 
elements, supplies from its grow ths the nutriment re- 
quired by another order of elementals, which deve- 
lop bodies functioned for free and mtelligent move- 



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ment. Varied and complex methods of physical 
evolution continue throughout the latter portion of 
this age, resulting in numerous types and races, and 
it is notable that the more recent generation of each 
kind displays an organic superiority over its prede- 
cessors. 



SCENE XL— Ninth Metheljan Age. 
Evolution of Life Forms. 

E?ioui7i: In the beginning of the 9th Methelian 
age, it is evident that the disturbances due to vol- 
canic energy have less frequent occurrence and that 
the lands of the earth possess a stability and a dura- 
tion from submergence not hitherto possible. Ani- 
mated life, though still confined to the simpler or- 
ganisms, multiplies rapidly and diversities in bodily 
structure constantly increase. Toward the middle 
of this age, plant and animal forms have spread 
over every mountain and plain and the waters have 
likewise received a liberal diffusion of life. Plants 
of strange and vigorous growth produce their kind 
in the equatorial valleys and the hardier mosses and 
grasses flourish in high latitudes, while from some 
of the primal forms of animated life there have been 
evolved strong and active creatures that disport 
themselves in the forests and in the great rivers and 
oceans. Latterly the varied growths multiply with 
such rapidity that vegetation and the inferior or- 
ganisms abound in all the lands and waters of the 



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Earth, while in certain localities animals of pon- 
derous size flourish. In these ages the luxuriant 
vegetation and the numerous creatures of land and 
sea. are functioned in their natural activities to ab- 
sorb and reorganize the superabundant gases and 
subtle elements of the atmosphere and of the waters 
and to concrete and deposit them in useful mineral 
strata. With the termination of this age. the at- 
mospheric forces appear to adjust themselves to the 
needs of plant and animal life, while mineral ele- 
ments continue to be combined and so deposited 
about the Earth's surface that civilized man in later 
epochs may be able to find and to utilize them. 



SCENE XIL— Tenth ]\Ietheltax Age. First 
Megazoax Age. 

Glacial and A'olcanic Processes. 

Ittigiir : The phenomena of the periodical glacial 
epochs in the high latitudes of the earth are becom- 
ing noteworthy in consequence of their important 
bearing upon the configuration of many lands and 
seas and their influence upon plant and animal life. 
The abnormal pressure of the great ice sheets appar- 
ently causes numerous volcanoes to burst forth upon 
the regions sustaining it, and concurrently therewith, 
certain portions of the land are wont to sink down 
and other portions to arise from the depths of the 
sea. Surface formations have not yet attained sufti- 
cient thickness and stability to hold them perman- 



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ently above the waters, and so they periodically sink 
and rise again and alternate from sustaining the life 
peculiar to dry land to the sustenance of submarine 
life. The subsidence of a land into the sea depths, 
is seen to effect the enrichment of its soil for the 
sustenance of plant and animal life and to increase 
the variety of its mineral deposits, so that the more 
a land hath been submerged the more abundant are 
the resources which its strata contains. The sub- 
terranean and volcanic forces appear to manifest 
their greatest activity in the vicinity of a polar hem- 
isphere undergoing the rigors of a glacial epoch, 
where terrene life being already near extinct, they 
entail an insignificant amount of physical suffering. 
Moreover, the approach of the glacial epoch and 
likewise each subsidence and elevation connected 
with its phenomena, is ordinarily so gradual as to 
give facilities of escape or change of abode to the 
higher animal species, so that comparatively few 
appalling disasters to life take place. 



SCENE XIII. — Second Megazoan Age. 

The Attainment of Luxuriant Vegetation and of 
Huge Animal Forms. 

Eiioui?! : A luxuriant growth of vegetation now 
prevails throughout every land of a favorably tem- 
pered climate while gigantic animals abound in the 
rivers and in the primeval forests. Among the 
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order predominates and its uncouth myriads are ac- 
■tive in their persecution of other more delicately or- 
ganized and intelligent types. Marine life is also 
prolific of huge and voracious forms, which appear 
especially functioned to absorb various abundant ele- 
ments of the air and water and to deposit them along 
with their bones; thus preparing the earth for the 
nobler creatures destined to succeed them. Now 
among the various kinds of animals inhabiting the 
lands of the earth at the termination of this age. 
there are none bearing even a remote resemblance 
to man, though the climiatic conditions in many 
regions would seemingly admit of his existence. 



SCENE XIV. — Third Megazoan Age. 

Improvement in the Conditions of the Earth and in 
THE Status of its Inhabitants. 

Ittigur: Lands that were hitherto frequently sub- 
merged in the ocean depths have now become more 
durable through the continual solidifying of the 
Earth's interior mass and the building up of sur- 
face strata from aqueous and atmospheric elements. 
Certain equanimities have been attained in the solar 
and lunar influences that add favorably to the cli- 
mate, while apparently the declination of the Earth's 
poles have not the extreme tension that was observ- 
able in earlier ages, so that the devastation wrought 
by glacial epochs is of lesser consequence. As ma- 
terial conditions in general improve and opportuni- 



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ties expand for the development of higher ani- 
mal types, the great reptiles are supplanted by less 
terrible creatures and many of the ponderous in- 
habitants of the forests and plains become extinct. 
At the termination of the age all the requisite con- 
ditions appear to obtain for materialization of the 
peculiar elemental that shall evolve the human 
genera. 



SCENE XV. — Fourth Megazoax, First Anthro- 
POGEXIAN Age. 

Okigix of the Humax Gexera. 

Enouin: An interminable stream of elemental s 
of the human genera now descends from the heavens 
upon the Earth, and seeking the most favorable 
localities they proceed to the development of 
material forms. Like unto the fore-runners of other 
animate beings, the primal forms developed by the 
human genera are of crude and lowly organization, 
but the age being a propitious one for them, they 
improve and multiply rapidly, though constantly 
harrassed by predaceous creatures. The genera 
spreads forth over many regions of the Earth, in 
some of which they prosper and in others meet with 
adversities, and thenceforward during the epochs 
of this age they are seen^to be passing through var- 
ious phases of their primary physical evolution. 
Now^ in addition to the human genera there hath 
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anous species that appear as abortive attempts to 
reach the true human type. In these records it is 
intimated that the progenitors of all the races of 
mankind were in the primal epochs of the genera on 
a level with very humble creatures, and that their 
evolution to the estate they hold in modern time 
hath been the work of millions of years of unceasing 
progress. Instinctively actuated by their incipient 
qualities of intellect, these primitive beings continue 
to strive toward the fulfilment of their destiny, at- 
tracting and embodying in each successive genera- 
tion a progressively higher order of souls. 



SCENE XVI. — Second i\xTHROPOGEXiAX Age. 
The Struggles of Primal Max with the Elements and 

WITH Noxious AND PrEDACEOUS AnIMALS. 

Ittigiir : The primeval races of mankind, although 
frequently decimated in localities where changes in 
the terrestrial surface or climatic rigors take place or 
where savage animals abound, continue yet progres- 
sive in physical evolution while their numbers in- 
crease upon the Earth. By slow processes man is 
approaching a physical form that in comparison 
with other creatures of this age, is highly organized, 
and his intelligence hath become so acute that the 
lower animals begin to regard him with awe and 
aversion. He makes the tropical forest his habitat 
and protects himself and his offspring from his 
natural enemies through superior agility and cun- 



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ning. His quadrumanous affinities become especial 
objects of his dislike and it is through these vague 
antipathies that he is protected from amalgamation 
with creatures inherently inferior to himself, even 
when his associations and methods of subsistence 
are similar to theirs. He likewise persecutes and 
aids the extermination of inferior types and off- 
shoots of his own race, apparently through an in- 
stinct that the chasm between man and animal 
might thereby be widened and the more worthy of 
his kind be perpetuated. 



SCENE XVH. — Third Anthropogenian Age. 
Separation of the Human Types from the Quadrumana. 

Eiiottin: The truly destined human types have 
now become structurally separated trom the quad- 
rumana, to which they w^ere hitherto closely allied, 
though in mental character they still remain instinc- 
tive and ferocious as a necessity in their disputes 
with other creatures of the forest. Racial types of 
the genera that live in near proximity to each other, 
are prevented from amalgamating by pronounced 
structural differences and fierce antipathies. These 
antipathies lead to the destruction of many primal 
tribes, but as the inferior in intellect are the chief 
sufferers, the higher interests of humankind appear 
to be enhanced thereby. Man in this age, hath 
great physical prow^ess and is able to prevail against 
his many animal foes, though his intellect is still 



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deficient and his habits ha\'e few distinguishing- 
features from those of the lowest quadrumanous 
species. Toward the close of the age he begins to 
show an actix^e tendenc}' toward artificial methods in 
pursuit of his food and in securing protection from 
the elements, and co-incident with his progression 
in this line there is a perceptible diminution in his 
animal-like qualities. It hath followed in the order 
of progressive evolution, with man as with the lower 
animals, that individuals and race- of the lesser 
general utilit}' in nature are eliminated, when the 
localit}' the}' inhabit is demanded b}- those of a 
superior organization and greater general utilit}'. 
Thus it appears when two races of mankind or 
species of animals, pursuing like methods of subsis- 
tence, come to inhabit the same region, the one of 
inferior energ}' or fitness to survive is eventualh' 
eliminated in fa\-or of its worthier competitor. 



SCENE X\TII. — Fourth Axthropogexiax Age. 
First Eptsteahax Age. 

Development of Intellect and Reason in Pri^eal 

Man. 

Ittigur: Xow man hath extended his habitat 
throughout ever\' fa\'orabl}' _ climated land and his 
tribes and races have begun to arra}' themseh'es in 
martial order and to serve under their natural 
leaders. He now manifiests increased intellectualit\- 
and reason in his activities, while artificial processes 



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and the rudimentary forms of speech are enlarged 
upon. Abortive or ill-favored offshoots, ■ or revers- 
ions to the quadrumanous form., are persecuted and 
destroyed in such savage earnestness as make it 
appear that this process of eliminating the unworthy 
is the intuitive carrying out of certain beneficent 
designs in nature, as in the widening of the gulf 
between man and animal. The backward orders 
of the genera are no longer permitted to pass 
the transitional stage from quadrumana to bimana, 
being invariably cut off by the advanced types, as if 
to completely eradicate these humble remnants still 
occupying the intermediate status. Toward the 
termination of this age, man makes rapid intellect- 
ual progress and becomes skilful in the construction 
of habitations and of weapons and utensils. His 
aggressiveness appears to enlarge and being now 
armed with destructive w^eapons, he becomes much 
engaged in ruthless and devastating wars. 



SCENE XIX. — Second Epistemian Age. 

Development of RelIgious Traits and of Political 
Methods Among Men. 

E/iouin: Man is now seen to be moved by the 
primal religious impulses and to institute crude meth-- 
ods of worship of such Deific properties in nature as he 
apprehends the existence of. Through the inade- 
quacy of the language of the age to define spiritual 
perceptions, a misleading religious sentiment is soon 
evolved and spread abroad so that worship comes to 



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be directed toward the external phenomena of 
nature instead of its esoteric and moving causes. 
Individual men. it appears, under their inherent and 
natural instincts would worship the esoteric in nature 
in the proper religious spirit were it not for imper- 
fectly expressed inspiration b}' those assuming relig- 
ious leadership, which cause the normal intuitions 
to be ignored while bold and assertive teachings 
swerve the mind into materialistic mazes. The 
more advanced races now send forth emigrant bands 
that proceed to establish themselves in every inhab- 
itable territory and island. ]\Ian}^ of these migra- 
tory bands perish through entering unfavorable 
climates or lands populated by hostile tribes but 
others are successful in founding colonies and in in- 
itiating comimercial relationships. 



SCENE XX. — Third Epistemian Age. 

Migrations and Warlike Exxroach^ients of the 
Races. 

Ittigur : Wars between the tribes and races have 
become more prevalent with the advance of human 
knowledge and inventiveness; and their notable 
result appears to be the formation of geographic 
lines separating naturalh' divergent types from each 
other. In the earlier stag^es of the grenera, weoccas- 
ionally observed racialh' divergent tribes occup\-ing 
the same territory, and throughout their subsequent 
evolution they continued to live in close association 



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with each other without serious conflict, but now 
with their animosities augmented by religious fana- 
ticism, they are continually engaged in harrassing 
each other. The weaker type of a locality thus 
diversely populated is eventually forced to migrate 
toward the racial order to which it is by nature 
allied, else it is enslaved or exterminated by its 
antagonists. Toward the end of the age, there is 
found m each continent, territory and island some 
one of the recognized racial types that hath, through 
its superior energies or special adaptation to the 
climate, become predominant and is instinctively 
struggling to eliminate other types and to secure 
the land to its posterity. 



SCENE XXI. — EouRTH Epistemian Age. First 
Anagrian Age. 

Racial Antagonisms and the Delineation of Na- 
tional Boundaries. 

Encndn: The different racial orders, during the 
ages since their primal advent upon the Earth, have 
kept within a certain radius of each- other in their 
physical evolution and have, moreover, shown a 
tendency to approach a common intellectual status. 
Certain divergences in the organization of mental fac- 
ulties in the different racial branches of the human 
genera have led to an ineradicable antagonism where- 
1 y they are constituted natural enemies of each other, 
while between the advanced and backward orders. 



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or those occup}'ing consecutive stations along the 
route of progressive enlightenment within the same 
race, there is at times an antagonism even fiercer 
than that between diverse races and which leads to 
desperate fratricidal contests. In the epochs of 
their earlier history, the races were restrained from 
unpropitious amalgamation chiefly through pro- 
nounced structural differences, but because of the 
tendenc}' of all members of thegenera toward certain 
physical and intellectual perfections, they have come 
so nearly in touch with the universal ideal that it 
seems to require the inception of national and creed 
fanaticisms to keep them from interblending with 
each other. In certain geographically exposed or 
indefensible regions, which happen to be fertile in 
natural resources, there appears to be periodical in- 
cursions with fierce wars and tragic defeats and oc- 
casionally in the conquering and enslaving of one 
tribe by another, In such lands it frequently hap- 
pens that the advantages of locality and resources 
are neutralized through the creation of an unstable 
mixed population that is readily conquered and its 
possessions overrun by a more impetuous and co- 
herent tribe coming of a truer racial lineage. 



Scene XXII. — Second Anagrian Age. 

Status of the Terrestrial Surface and of the Life 
Forms Extant. 

Ittignr: The continents of the earth have at- 
tained great thickness of surface strata and a conse- 



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quent solidity that enables theirendurance of aqueous 
and atmospheric energy for epochs of great length, 
in comparison with the time between the earlier up- 
heavals and subsidences. This increased durability 
of land areas gives additional advantages to man and 
likewise to the inferior creatures and plants in their 
progressive evolution, so that they unfold their 
powers more readily than in those ages when the 
Earth's surface was shorter removed from the mol- 
ten state. It is remarkable that among the lower 
animals, the earlier tendency toward huge body 
growths hath been changed.to a tendency to diminish 
size and to attain a graceful molding ot physique 
and concurrently the acquirement of a higher phase 
of intelligence. 



Scene XXIII. — Third Anagrian Age. 

The Instinctive Struggle of the Races for Domains 
Suitable to Their Posterity. 

Rjioiiin: Now each race of mankindappears to be 
imbued with an eagerness to secure to its posterity a 
great extent of territory and to expel from its vi- 
cinity those regarded as aliens or enemies. There 
is to this end an eager struggle going on, the occu- 
pying of desirable regions by racially allied tribes 
and the development of centers of populations from 
whence their respective types may radiate forth to- 
ward lands yet uninhabited or that have weak or 
easily subjugated aborigines. A region that the 



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modern chart shows as pertaining to western 
Europe sustains the primitive Aryan tribes and other 
regions designated Asia Minor, eastern Asia and 
central Africa respectively sustain the progenitors of 
the Semites, Turanians and Ethiopians. From these 
centers migratory bands wander forth and populate 
every accessible territory and island upon the Earth's 
surface. These delineated race centers are, how- 
ever, not recognizable as inclusive of the very region 
wherein the progenitors of their present populations 
received the primal materialization on the Earth; 
which is not a matter to be wondered at because of 
migrations, conquests, destructive submergences of 
land and glacial epochs which have in turn depopu- 
lated vast areas or scattered their inhabitants abroad. 
There have, however, been some instances w^hen 
epochs of devastation caused the primal inhabitants 
of a territory to migrate to a distant region where 
they perpetuated their race until in process of time 
the land of their origin was fit for their re-occu- 
pation. 



SCENE XXIV. — Fourth Anagrian Age. First 
Agathian Age. 

Numerical Increase of the Intellectual Types and 
Elimination of the Ill-favored and Savage 
Elements. 

Ittigitr: As the populations of the several racial 
centers increase, migratory bands are seen to pour 
forth into distant territories and to found new 
colonies and nations. These activities, being fre- 



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quently accompanied b\' warlike methods, there re- 
sults the destruction of many weak and inferior 
branches of the genera but among the conquerors or 
survivors there is an enhancement of philosophy and 
the arts. Wandering bands of diverse racial origin 
occasionally meet on the borders of some fertile 
territor}' and engage in fierce struggles for its posses- 
sion. The stronger band eventually subdues the 
weaker and either expels or enslaves it. or amalga- 
mation follows modifying original physical appear- 
ance and traits of character and creating an inter- 
mediate or sub-race. Certain chastenings thus ap- 
plied to the colonial offshoots of a race are enacted 
in milder form among the parental families, where 
inferior or retrograde individuals are eliminated b\' 
the processes known to obtain with the incompetent 
or criminal class in modern time. 



SCENE XXV. — Second Agathiax Age. 

The Development of Defensive and .Aggressive 
Prowess and the Founding of National 
Institutions. 

Ejwuin : Man hath now developed such skilful 
means of defense against predatory animals that 
they cease to harrass him, but are wont to retire from 
his vicinity. He displays great skill in ensnaring 
the beasts of the forest, and through his persistent 
destructiveness many defenseless species are becom- 
ing extinct or are domesticated to his service. His 



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occupation is now seen to be divided between tlie 
cultivation of plants adapted to his sustenance and 
the preparation of implements for the chase and 
for war. It appears as a feature in the processes of 
human development in this age, that those tribes 
having the greater range of territory and with numer- 
ous foes become the more formidable and expert in 
warlike tactics, while those racial fragments upon 
islands or isolated territories and wanting in preda- 
tory enemies perpet^aate less vigorous qualities. 
There is now shown a gathering together of racially 
allied tribes upon the greater continents and the 
forming of the nuclei of true political organizations 
and an evoking of the patriotism that shapes national 
destiny. 



SCENE XXVL — Third Agathiax Age. 

The Evolution of ^Ioral and Religious Principles 
Among Men. 

Ittigtir: The restraining influences hitherto no- 
ticeable among men have been either purely instinct- 
ive, discretionary or superstitious, but now true reli- 
gious sentiments and doctrines profiting the human 
intellect are making their appearance. Sages have 
appeared in each race and nation possessed of fair 
and consistent views of creation and the destiny of the 
soul, and moreover disposed to found their doctrines 
upon reason and natural inspn'ation and to substitute 
voluntary penances and soul-felt contrition for the 



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purchased mummeries of the primeval shaman 
Among the more advanced tribes the occupation of 
thb conjuring shaman and healer is supplanted 
priestly conservators of historic legends, ideas and 
beliefs and the superior members of the order are 
apparently earnest in the enlightenment of the 
people and in their redemption from barbaric senti- 
ments and practices. These favorable religious beliefs 
and methods are, however, quickly changed and true 
philosophy thwarted in its design by the overwhelm- 
ing passion extant, rendering men intellectually in- 
capable of embracing the exact truths of nature and 
filling them with rabid opposition to a chaste order 
of teachers. The sage and philosopher, under stress 
of popular fanaticism, is obliged to disguise inspired 
truth by symbol and metaphor and a priestly horde 
comes into existence interpreting this disguised 
theology in accordance with the superstitious whims 
and the passional desires of the multitude. Varied 
forms of worship comes to be practised, the moral 
tone of which is commonly gauged by the intellec- 
tual standard of the worshipper and religion appears 
in some respects connected with even greater follies 
and brutalities than it were in any preceding age. 



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SCENE XXVIL — Fourth Agathtax A(;e. First 
AjiTANiAN Age. 

The Favorable Tendenxies in Material Nature and 
THE Advan'ce of Hu^lan LTviliz attox . 

Enouin : Now, according to these records, the 
configuration of the lands and seas of the Earth and 
the conditions of plant and animal life have in this 
age attained a near resemblance to .their modern 
estate. The eccentricities in the* Earth's orbital 
movements that formerly caused subterranean com- 
motions and irregularities in the seasons, have given 
place to oscillations so favorably adjusted that even 
glacial epochs show a mere trace of the rigors that 
accompanied them in the distant ages of the past. 
The improving conditions manifest upon the Earth's 
surface, enables a rapid increase in numbers among 
humankind and such advance of civilization that 
thousands may exist in comfort upon lands where 
formerly hundreds could hardly sustain themselves. 
Each continent hath its peculiar races, with their 
great centres of population where cities are built 
and enlightened methods evolved, while each hath 
also its barbarous tribes who haunt the uncultivated 
forests and deserts. 



SCENE XXVIIL — Secoxd Ajitaxl\x Age. 

The Struggles of the Progressive with the Retro- 
gressive Elements of the Races. 
* 

Ittigur : Two classes of meii with, diametrically . 
opposite tendencies are manifest in each racial 



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order, the one being industrial and progressive in 
the worthy channels of life and the other improvi- 
dent and vicious and persistently active in spread- 
ing immorality, in ravaging the land and destroying 
every invention and intellectual ideal that elevates 
and ennobles the human soul. Where the one class 
prevails there is peace and plenty and constant in- 
crease in all the achievements of civilization; where 
the other class prevails there is turbulence and 
poverty and a want of new achievements in civiliza- 
tion. The struggle between these two classes is ver}' 
marked in this age and a locality may frequently be 
noted wherein a promising tribe had made excellent 
progress in rudimentary civilization, but which 
coming under the blight of a destroying horde, is 
transformed into a barren waste. The destroyers at 
times appear in the character of armed savages from 
the uncultivated wilderness, and at other times as 
morbid growths from the centres of the highest 
civilizations, resultant, as it were, of some malignant 
vice that had fastened upon the masses or of some 
false and dangerous philosophy or religious or 
political institution. The struggles between these 
two peculiar divisions of mankind continue so per- 
sistent that at the termination of the age civiliza- 
tion in some respects seemeth no further advanced 
than at its beginning. 



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SCENE XXIX.— Third Ajitaxiax Age. 
The Development of Four Distinctive Civilizations, 

Ejiouhi: This age is remarkable for the coeval 
development of four great civilizations, which are dis- 
tantly separated and denoted by a peculiar distinc- 
tiveness in architecture and in philosophic ideals 
from each other. These contemporaneous civilizations 
are isolated by seas and deserts and by forests in- 
fested with blood-thirsty savages, which makes it 
appear that each is an independently spontaneous 
evolution from the primitive and barbaric to the 
enlightened and civilized estate. The races sustain- 
ing these civilizations appear to be Aryan, Semite 
and Turanian and the regions they occupy are 
situate in southern Europe, Asia ]ylinor, northern 
Africa and central America respectively. These 
civilizations continue to flourish until near the end 
of this age, when each appears to enter upon an 
era of decay, coeval with which, however, is the 
springing up of several new civilizations within 
regions hitherto roamicd over by uncouth savages. 



SCENE XXX. — Fourth Ajitaniax Age. istSajan- 
lAN Age. 

The Attainment by the Human Races or the Status 
WHICH Historic Records Disclose. 

Ittigur: The face of material nature is of goodly 
aspect, such as was never before so generalh' pre- 
valent, while man hath attained a comelier physique 



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and a higher order of intelligence in his activities. 
Now in the beginning of the Sajanian age, which 
is seen to be contemporaneous with the beginning of 
the archaeological history of man, remarkable 
intellectual changes are taking place within the 
populous centres of each of the leading races. The 
intermediate centuries of this age are noteworthy 
for invasions and conquests and the interblending 
of races and creeds, and, while some worthy civiliza- 
tions are destroyed during these events, there is 
effected the awakening of a progressive spirit among 
many tribes that had hitherto been in a state of 
savagery and which now set themselves toward the 
upbuilding of substantial religious and political 
systems. Latterly there is seen the rapid develop- 
ment of civilization among Aryan tribes of southern 
Europe and central Asia, among Semite tribes in 
Asia Minor and Egypt and among Turanian tribes 
in eastern Asia; each of which is shown to have 
transmitted the principal features of its language 
and social system to its racial representatives of 
modern time. And now, Gebril, that we have fol- 
lowed thy world's history down to its recent and ex- 
istent phases, we are prepared for other investiga- 
tions; though there are some features and theoretic 
suggestions connected with our experience here that 
we would gladly have pursued into details had our 
time permitted. According to the information we 
have derived of your records, we are led to infer 
that all the planets of your system are not maintain- 
ing coeval phases of surface development with the 
Earth, nor are they possessed of inhabitants enlight- 



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ened as those we find here. We have to suppose 
that the more distant bodies of the system, which 
are visibly of greater dimensions than the Earth are 
yet in the excessively heated stage and that the 
system is of such design that all the planets are ap- 
proaching the sun and that each in turn when within 
a certain radius of the solar influence will derive a 
sufficiency of light and heat and in every respect 
find itself in condition to sustain life. In following 
this theory, we find the planets one b\' one passing- 
through the lite sustaining radius of the solar in- 
fluence, and still drawing inward upon their orbits, 
they in due course must needs approach 
and be absorbed in the solar m.ass. Hence, 
we shall suppose that l\Iercur\' and possibly 
Venus have already arrived so near the sun 
that life cannot at present exist upon them 
and that the Earth is now amidst the inhabitable 
solar radius, with the planet ^Mars just entering its 
outskirts, while those bodies from Jupiter outward 
and presenting a molten or vaporous aspect, are as 
yet far off the life sustaining era. 

Gehril : That which hath been potrayed to you 
is a very brief abstract of a special branch of learn- 
ing here, that would occupy you man}' years to mas- 
ter in detail: and so you may easily find room be- 
twixt the substantial threads of the veil of planet 
history we have dealt with in these scenes to fit in a 
great amount of theoretic speculation. As my pur- 
pose is to disclose the essentials of your visit here to 
inhabitants of the lower world, and as I consider it 
not fortuitous for mortal man to receive knowledge 



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of the more intricate processes in nature gratis and 
without efficient labor on his part, I propose that 
we avoid all discussion that might reveal any 
potential fact of the universe, or at least such as 
would disturb or prematurely unhinge the phil- 
osophy that now obtains on the material plane. I 
believe it in our mutual interest now to betake our- 
selves to the conservatorium of prognostication and 
prophecy for the material world. 



SCENE XXXI. — Conservatorium of Prophecy. 
Races and Civilizations of the Millenial Future. 

Ejtouin: The prophecies herein recorded indicate 
that through an intelligent system of aid rendered to 
certain of the backward tribes of mankind, there will 
in process of time rise up new and unique nation- 
alities in regions now inhabited by lowly savages; so 
that many territories and islands which are in the 
present age obscure in the civilized world, will be- 
come centres of commercial prosperity and of high 
intellectual culture. The alien and antagonistic 
castes or religious orders that now set themselves to 
afflict the nations among whom they dwell, will in 
due course be judiciously removed to territories 
wherein the associations are such as will neutralize 
their antagonisms and call forth their latent patriotic 
and charitable instincts. The nations of the earth, 
however differently organized in racial qualities and 
customs, will wholly cease to war with each other 



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and mild and benevolent methods will prevail; while 
yet the racial type of each of the great natural divi- 
sions of mankind will be perpetuated in its most 
marked and interesting aspects. Among all men, 
the traits generally conceded as admirable and benefi- 
cent will supersede the repulsive and disorderly; 
fewer premature deaths will take place and the 
birth rate will be regulated to the sustaining powers 
of the land by moral and intelligent methods. Liter- 
ature will be refined and brought to the highest excel- 
lence and all that panders to the baser influences 
will be eliminated. Every youth in the land will be 
trained to the strictest virtues and educated by rapid 
and skilful processes, and none will be found to have 
reached the age of maturity without due qualifica- 
tion for useful and honorable pursuits. The races 
and nations of mankind will come to have a definite 
adjustment of territorial boundaries and each pecu- 
liar type will evolve a civilization in accordance with 
its inherent instincts and material environments, 
while between the most diverse of these races and 
nationalities there will be found no hatred or jealousy 
but mutual good will and admiration of each other. 
The racial variety in men and the differentiation in 
architecture, ceremonial forms and mode of dress 
will become even more pronounced than in the pre- 
sent era; so that the traveller from one nation to 
another w^ill be filled w ith- interest and enthusiasm 
through the newness and novelty of the scenes that 
greet his vision. 



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SCENE XXXII. 
The Religion of the Millenial Epoch. 

Ittigur: In the perfected civilization of the 
future, even in the transitional ages preceding the 
true millenial epoch upon the earth, there will ap- 
pear gifted seers and sages proclaiming doctrines 
that are based upon inspirationall}^ revealed truths 
of nature and so well delineated as to be applicable 
to every class and order of men. As there are 
skilled material philosophers, whose studies of the 
visible firmament or of the earth strata or of some 
special phenomena enable true forecasts of the 
movements of celestial bodies through space or de- 
ductions as to certain phases of the ancient w^orld, so 
also there may be skilled spiritual philosophers, who 
under the exaltation of a class of discerning faculties 
are enabled to transcend physical conditions and de- 
rive from invisible planes the principles suitable to 
the spiritual guidance of ordinary men. The labors 
of these master minds will eventually be crowned 
by the establishment of a religious system of such 
incontestable beneficence and consistency with eso- 
teric and exoteric nature, that men of every intellec- 
tual rank and racial lineage will become its ad- 
herents. The divers creeds of present time will 
thus find a certain doctrinal basis and produce there- 
from an authoritative universal religion, from which 
there will latterly be no deviation of principles, 
though various ceremonial forms may still be main- 
tained in accordance with cherished traditions or 
peculiar local influences. The precepts of this uni- 



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versal religion will embody the essential truths of 
the material universe and will be delineated in such 
well chosen terms as to appeal successfully to ever\' 
intelligent mind. Every cumbersome or meaning- 
less formality will be eliminated from the worship of 
Deity and a rational, moral and beneficent code will 
ensue and prove an exact and unfailing guide to the 
human mind in its earthly career. This happih' 
conditioned religion will efficienth* equip the 
mind of man for the ordinary emergencies of 
life, fortifying the character with an acute percep- 
tion of moral principles and affording a sufficient 
restraint from every thought or action detrimental 
to the spiritual future of the soul. 



SCENE XXXIII. 
Termination of Life on the Earth. 

Enotti7i: All life being dependent, for embodi- 
ment and lineal perpetuation, upon the elemental 
souls that reach the earth from the central regions of 
the sub-universe, it comes within the orderly domain 
of nature to reduce the birth rate by reducingthe in- 
flow of these souls, and this function she invariably 
executes with each species when the peculiar re- 
sources necessary to its material sustenance are ex- 
hausted. In conformity with this provision it is or- 
dained that when the end of the life sustaining 
epoch of the earth .draws near, there will 
take place a diminution in the influx of 



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germinating elementals from Pan-Elysium, close fol- 
lowed by a noticeable sterilty among various animal 
species, so that one by one the life orders cease to 
exist on the material plane. When the process of 
the final elimination of life from the earth begins, 
humankind will be first to succumb, then the supe- 
rior animal types, then the humbler creatures and 
finally vegetation will perish and the surface of the 
once fertile and populous planet w^ill be left a barren 
w^aste. The closing era of mankind's career, though 
necessarily fraught with certain pathetic features to 
observant minds, will moreover afford rare spec- 
tacular and scenic beauties in nature— awe inspiring 
and conducive to ennobling thought. While con- 
tinuous diminution in numbers in each race may be 
apparent, enlightenment and culture will yet be sus- 
tained through the abundant art treasures left by the 
colossal civilizations of the millenial ages. The in- 
telligent remnants of once mighty nations will dur- 
ing this age view w^ith profound veneration the monu- 
mental relics spread over the lands of the Earth, realiz- 
ing that such glorious w^orks can never be revived; 
and so their aspirations instead of being directed to- 
ward material inventions or new spiritual revela- 
tions, will find solace in an incomparable literature 
and the utilization of the abundant materials of 
every art and science left by their accomplished mil- 
lenial ancestors. And, as the end of the epoch 
draws near, the nations will grow^ weaker in numbers 
until a mere tribal remnant is left of each; then one 
by one these w-ill find themselves sterile and come to 
a realization that no more germinating elementals are 



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upon the Earth to give them posterity. These last 
remnants, though saddened that no posterity will 
come after them, will find compensating joy in the 
peculiar grandeur of the natural phenomena of the 
time and in their strangely important mission in 
bringing up the rear of the legions of their kindthat 
have inhabited the noble planet Earth. 



SCENE XXXIV. 
The Disintegration of the Material World. 

Ittigitr: The epoch during which the Earth 
shall maintain its elements in compact mass and 
comport itself as an orderly body in space, hath 
exact limits in the system of the universe, so that 
when the Methelian ages allotted to the terrestrial 
functions have run their course, material dissolution 
will take place. In the earlier phases of its decay, 
the Earth's internal fires will be quenched and the 
waters and vapors that now subsist as rivers, seas 
and cloud mists will be indrawn into its cavernous 
interior. Then ensues an age in which the Earth 
will move dead and barren upon its orbit, the mere 
material framework of the once prolific world, and 
followed still by its satellite, the moon, it will be at- 
tracted inward upon a constantly shortening orbit 
until it reaches the solar luminiary and ends its 
identity in his ample proportions. In like manner 
to the Earth, every planet of the system hath its 
limitations as a life sustaining and orderly moving 



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bod\', and must eventiialh' \'ield obedience to a 
peculiar force that contracts its orbit until it comes 
into a cataclysmic collision with the sun. Thus, 
while the sub-universal laws pro\'ide against an}' 
sudden or premature annihilation of the Earth or of 
an}' other truh' organized planet, there is neverthe- 
less an appointed time when all shall be clashed to- 
gether in the great central luminar}', which then 
losing the equilibrium sustained with its planetar}' 
supports in space, will give vent to a series of tremend- 
ous outbursts that will hurl the cosmic elements into 
distant reaches of the orbital chasm. And now 
Gebril, through these prophecies thy doctrine is 
made more clear that planetary matter was origin- 
all}' thrown off from the sun and sent rotating 
through space. The matter constituting all the 
planets of the present system was thrown off during 
the one heroic period of these solar activities. This 
planetary matter after being distributed outward to- 
ward the limits of the solar influence, began to 
gather into compact bodies duly stationed upon 
orbits at certain respective distances from each 
other. During the earlier stages of planetary ex- 
istence, the centrifugal forces of the sun exceeded the 
centripetal so that the planetar}^ bodies continued to 
move further outward into space; but eventualh' 
these two forces became equalized, either through 
certain changes in the rotation of the solar mass or 
the diminution of his radiating elements, and for 
a time the planets held themselves steadily at fixed 
distances from their governing source. Then the 
centripetal forces gained ascendancy over the cen- 



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tn'fugal and the planets began to draw closer to the 
sun in their orbital movements. The continuation 
of this process must, therefore, eventually bring the 
planets one b}^ one back into the solar mass, from 
whence, after being reduced to primal dust and 
vapor, they will again be hurled outward and formed 
into new planets . It is when the planets are ap- 
proaching the sun that they enter a radial zone fav- 
orable to life forms, and after passing through this 
zone life comes to an end. 

Gebril: Your derivations and deductions from 
our treasuries of learning have been remarkably true 
and explicit for minds trained upon a world so very 
unlike the Earth as lltromene is known to be. Now, 
that we have interviewed the historic and theoretic 
features }^ou desired first to acquaint yourselves with, 
we are prepared for the descent to the material 
plane. 



SCENE XXXV. — The Descent to the ^L^terial 

Plane. 

First Terrestrial Observation, Ethiopia. 

EnoiLvn: The material world now lieth before 
us: a broad symmetrical expanse, with lands and 
waters that become more picturesque as we ap- 
proach them. Its excellent features are rapidl}' un- 
folding before our vision, and verily it seemeth full 
worthy the noble histor}' its geniuses have recorded 
of it in those spiritual conservatories we have ex-- 



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plored. You have brought us, Gebril, to a wild and 
uncultivated region, with people having the manners 
of the primal ages. These people give themselves 
to barbaric orgies and show a want of intellectual 
power and an absence of moral compunction that 
is not in keeping with this advanced age of the 
Earth. Oh! we see they are beset about by ruthless 
enemies, the unprincipled members of a stronger 
race who pillage their towns and carry many of them 
away enshackled captives. There are yet other 
strangers among them for benevolent purposes and 
striving to implant new customs and the religion of 
a distant civilization. The native race, though ill- 
favored and humbly placed among men, appears en- 
dowed with the essential elements of physique and 
intellect to make it a substantial power upon the 
Earth, but at present methinks its civilization too 
immature to deserve our extensive critcism or pro- 
found study. 

Gebril: This land is known as central Africa and 
its native tribes now hold a very humble position 
among the nations of the Earth. These people 
have probably suffered greater wrongs through alien 
invasion than thou wouldst incline to believe possible 
in our m.odern world; it being only very recently in- 
deed that they were anywhere recognized as 
deserving the common rights of humankind. Vast 
numbers of this peculiar race have been dragged 
from their homes and sold like mere animals in dis- 
tant lands, and though this evil practice hath been 
suppressed by mutual consent among the superior 
nations, they are yet extensively preyed upon by a 



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horde of brutal mongrels who infest their defense- 
less borders. There are indications, however, that 
the philanthropy of the enlightened nations w'ill soon 
be intelligent!}' directed .toward these people and 
that the\* will be placed a new footing and im- 

bued with the spirit of progress. 



SCEXh XXX\'I. — Second Observation. Arabia. 



Ittizur : \ ou have brought us to a land abound- 
ing in desert vrastes. interspersed here and there 
with fertile tracts thai are highl\' cultivated and 
filled with the habitations of a comely race. The 
cities here contain many stately temples dedicated 
to religious worship under the system of the prophet 
r\Iohamed. This is evidently a spirited and war- 
like people and much given to the performance of 
religious ceremonies, one feature of which is the ex- 
tensi\'e sacrifice of domestic animals. The faces of 
their women are screened from common observation 
and they, moreover, appear to be injuriously re- 
stricted in their outdoor mo\'ements and associations. 
The\- appear as a people who had been great among 
the nations of the Earth, but. through lack of some 
essential qualit}'. were distanced by others m politi- 
cal craft and progressive methods. Their pictur- 
esque mode of life, their religious pilgrimages and 
their impetuous ardor in an}* cause involving their 
personal liberties or their faith, fills us with a desire- 
for their more intimate acquaintance, but their defi- 



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ciency in advanced intellectual principles necessarily 
renders a longer stay with them profitless- to our 
mission. 

Gebril: This land is of historic renown am_ong 
men, for it is here that they generally accredit the 
beginning of human civil izatio*n . The present in- 
habitants are not prosperous, though they rejoice in 
a comparatively advanced theology and, as you see, 
they are a people of high spirit and ready wit. The 
Hebraic, the more intellectual branch of this people, 
is at present scattered about foreign lands, as a re- 
sult we may assume, of sectarian quarrels, and until 
some unusual event or patriotic impulse shall cause 
the return of this legion to its brethren, there is 
small chance of a revival of the ancient prosperity 
of the race. 



SCENE XXXVII.— Third Observation, Eastern 

Asia. 

Enouin: Our vision now rests upon a region 
whose eastern borders are washed by four seas and 
whose fertile vales and plains give sustenance to 
vast numbers of human beings . The race we find 
extending over this great range of territory, 
is divided into several populous nationalities 
and the structure of its civilization appears diver- 
gent from that of any other system extant upon the 
Earth. Its religion appears to contain certain truly 
revealed principles, but as if through a prevalent 



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spiritual lethargy, theology is degraded so that the 
present worship is purely exoteric and burdened 
with many costly and spiritually profitless ceie- 
monies. Within the numerically greater nation of 
this people the condition of woman appears deplor- 
able, and among the notable evils affecting her may 
be cited illiteracy, marriage by barter and the bind- 
ing and crippling of feet. The coast line is found 
to be invaded by a fair alien people, who while 
bringing political and religious influences that ought 
to have a revitalizing effect upon the natives, is seen 
nevertheless, at present to impose a consuming tax 
upon them through conditions of shipping and com- 
merce that places a disproportionate share of profits 
in foreign hands. The fault cannot properly be 
charged to the foreigner, even though he hath used 
warlike force in establishing his relationship here, 
for the internal laws of the country are such that 
many resources within the national domains lie fal- 
low while the people bu}' materials of foreign pro- 
duction. The want of efficient statesmen, and of a sen- 
timent among the people favorable to the breaking up 
of traditional customs that have become obstacles to 
normal progression, portends grievous sufferings for 
this nation, and it is evidenth' safe to predict that 
great revolutionary struggles are yet to take place 
within its borders. Upon the northern coast is an 
island nation of this race which appears to have im- 
bibed the spirit of the alien intruder and to ha\'e so 
utilized his diplomac}' that international stipulations 
which were formalh' enforced b}- him have now be- 
come a mutual desire, and the profits of shipping and 



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commerce are evenly balanced or possibly incline 
in favor of the native. The women of this island 
people appear to enjoy a sufficient measure of liberty 
and are consequently fairly enlightened, and pos- 
sessed of mannerh' graces that are wanting in the 
women of the greater nation. 

Gebril : These nations form the nucleus of the 
Turanian race, which in point of numbers leads all 
the races of mankind. Their civilization is of great 
antiquity and the people have been loth to grasp the 
ideas and methods of the more advanced aliens we 
find upon their coasts; and considering their num- 
bers and vast range of territory, it is extremely for- 
tunate for those same aliens that their ideas and the 
spirit of their civilization have not been readily par- 
taken of. Let us now turn our faces w^estward and 
make our w^ay across the lands of several racially 
mixed and weak Asiatic nationalities, and w^e shall 
soon behold the continent where the fair and intru- 
sive traders and missionaries we have had occasional 
glimpes of in our travels take their origin. 



SCENE XXXVIII.— FouTH Observation, 
Europe. 



Ittigur: We have now within our view a conti- 
nent of great beauty and fertility of resources and 
sustaining many powerful and cultured nations. 
Populous and most agreeably designed cities abound 
and there are structures and institutions that exceed 



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in splendor an\- evidences of human skill we ha\'e 
hitherto witnessed upon the Earth. The religion 
predominant here appears to be strangeh' compli- 
cated, through the prevalence of numerous diverg- 
ent sects that di^pla}' much antagonism toward each 
other. From its outward aspects it is a religion 
without an accurateh' defined or true philosophic 
base and evidentl\* owes its origin either to crude 
prehistoric traditions, which have been built upon as 
the race improved its civilization, or it is of foreign 
derivation and imperfecth' interpreted. The splen- 
dor of civilization increases toward the western limits 
of the continent and there are two large islands o'ff 
the coast line, surrounded b\' a great swarm of 
marine craft, that are especially attractive for their 
extraordinar}" architectural achievements. A marked 
feature of the nations of this continent is the vast 
number of men engaged in militar}' functioPaS; there 
being ever^'where an appearance of preparation for 
desperate conflict. There seemeth a remarkable 
distrust between the different nationalities, possibly 
because some are ruled b}' \'oung and ambitious 
princes who are not sufticienth' restrained by con- 
stitutional guarantees in regard to peace to inspire- 
their neighbors with confidence, or that the class of 
men purchasable fornvarlike aggression is known to 
be dangerously abundant. Those who are not gov- 
ernors or soldiers evidenth' have excessive tasks 
upon them, in order to sustain and furnish with 
munitions the portentious horde which is thus with- 
held from emplo\- productive of the necessaries of 
life. Judging from the general superiority of these 



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people over other races we have observed, there 
must be good results from such enforced exertions; 
keen necessity probably driving men to activities 
that develop both a mental and a physical prowess. 
Perhaps in the near future these men will be actuated 
to proper exertions from abstract reasoning and 
exact knowledge of consequences or from religious 
instincts, whereas now they only do so from ambit- 
ious designs or dire necessity. These splendid miili- 
tary displays may react propitiously, through stir- 
ring the enthusiasm and loyal zeal of men and ex- 
citing them to heroic activities and even benevolent 
deeds, while yet obviously fostering savage or murd- 
erous instincts. In the more refined ages of the 
future men will, no doubt, employ their time spare 
from earning the material necessities in building- 
great edifices and works of public beneficence or in 
intellectual culture, instead of devoting it to the ap- 
purtenances of war; but the present population, having 
the savage qualities strong within them would prob- 
ably expend any increased leisure in pursuit 
of the voluptuous and the spiritually prof- 
itless. The people mayhap cannot yet do profitabh' 
with lesser burdens nor properly appreciate more 
leisure, and so they must needs continue to support 
their great armies and ambitious princes until a gen- 
eration with more refined and benevolent instincts 
shall be evolved. 

Gebril: These nations are components of the 
great Aryan race, which in this age leads all the 
human types in the grandeur of civilization, and, 
from the capacities of its people in general, it seems 



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destined to maintain its high station for considerable 
time yet to come. In order to study its profound 
civilization readily and effectively, I believe it 
advisable for us to proceed westward to another con- 
tinent upon which a nation has been established 
that is in its principal features an epitome 
of all you see here. The nation I make mention of 
was formed of colonists from these countries so that 
all the qualities of race and civilization which we 
have here before us will there be found so peculiarly 
interblended as to be most favorably placed for our 
study. 



SCENE XXXIX. — Fifth Terrestrial Observa- 
tion, America. 

E7ioiiin: Now wx hold within our vision a well 
appointed continent, the northern half of which 
sustains a people most proficient in the higher arts 
and sciences. The fair race of Europe predominates, 
though distributed through the nation in consider- 
able numbers are Turanian and Ethiopian types 
which are evident!}^ held aloof or not invested with 
full citizenship. These alien featured people are seen 
to become more numerous and to be more harmon- 
ously affiliated with the European colonists in cer- 
tain smaller nations of the central and southern por- 
tions of the continent and the civilization these 
nationalities sustain is a compromise between the 
several racial types composing them. In the great 



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nation of the north there is less of the militar\' spirit 
than in Europe, though the number of people draw- 
ing sustenance from the government appears scarcely 
less. The striking difference between the tax con- 
sumers of the two continents is that those of Europe 
are chiefl}' armed soldiers, effective for immediate 
defensive or aggressive action, while those of 
America are chiefly veterans, or their dependents, of 
a recent civil war. Thus the peculiar characteristic 
of the race to take upon itself extraordinary burdens 
maintains in these colonists as in the parental na- 
tions, and assuredh' the trait is laudable and will 
be made to serve noble purposes when the highest 
state of enlightenment shall have been developed 
on the material plane. On our nearer approach we 
find a strange clashing of ideas and an inordinate 
wrangle in the councils of the nation, as if between 
different sections or commercial interests, and which 
though appearing at times unseeml}', should be taken 
as evidence of wondrous vitalit}' and emotional 
power in the people. The religious instincts of the 
race are displayed here on a scale truly magnificent; 
towering churches abound and within them there is 
in general maintained a system of instructive wor- 
ship that confers notable benefits, although some of the 
ethics would hardh' withstand the test of clear reas- 
oning. There is a commendable absence of the des- 
tructive sacrificial worship noticed among other 
races, and withal the majorit}' of the sects appear 
to have attained a high order of merit in their cere- 
monial and benevolent institutions. Xow, while 
the religious institutions of these people are in the 



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main commendable, there are certain evils in the 
social system that are hard to reconcile with the 
claim of advanced civilization. Hard by us here is 
a home where an aged couple are lamenting a 
daughter who was enticed into forbidden paths by- 
one for whom she had formed an attachment. Their 
sad story reveals that the daughter was dishonored 
and eventually became an inmate of an evil resort 
in the slums of the city, and, according to the cus- 
tom.s of the land, there is henceforth no respected 
vocation at which she will be allowed to earn a live- 
lihood, nor is there any apparent method whereby 
she may again be associated with chaste people. And 
here is one of these ill famed resorts, with an inmate 
lamenting bitterly her downfall and the life she is 
now- compelled to lead. She bewails the loss of the 
natural hopes and desires, especially those of wife- 
hood and maternity, and the alienation of all 
who formerly claimed friendship with her. She 
bemoans that there are none to assist in remedying 
her condition, not even one of those eloquent preach- 
ers who are wont to repeat a story in the churches of a 
magdalen who was rescued by their religious pro- 
totype, the Xazarene. The position of these 
women is most pitiful, Gebril, and the 
strangest charge against them is that they are 
much more in fault than the men con- 
cerned in their degradation. It appears utterh- 
impossible for one of these women to reform or to 
even partially retrieve her honor, though the men 
who have been associated with her are still con- 
sidered worthy citizens. Now to judge impulsivel}- 



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from mere outward signs, we are constrained to say, 
woe to the man who seduces and robs a woman of 
that which makes her attractive and estimable among 
her fellow beings I It seemeth premisable that he 
who finds a woman chaste and innocent and lea\'es 
her humiliated, dishonored and depraved, entails a 
grievous charge upon his soul, and who in justice 
should be haunted with his crime and find himself at 
variance with nature and the better class of men until 
he hath sufficiently atoned, if that were possible in 
life. Xow, while the people of Ihis proud nation 
may righteously demand purity and discretion of 
their women, methinks there might be more effective 
hindrances to men offering temptation to the unso- 
phisticated, and also more palpable barriers to the en- 
couragement of the vice we have had an intimation 
of. 

Gebril: As for these women, it is generally sup- 
posed that had they possessed sufficient prudence 
and honor as an original heritage, they could not 
have been induced to enter upon a vicious career, 
e\ en though they were betrayed by those in whom 
they had unwiseh' confided. Philosophers here are 
disposed to recognize an unsubstantial or criminal 
class, embracing members of both sexes, and while it 
is possible there are many of this class who were 
originally capable of honorable lives, still it is 
thought that the majority have the base elements 
strong within them as an endowment from their sav- 
age ancestors. These weak or vicious individuals, 
of either sex, are in most instances deserving 
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perceived that they are great sufferers. Viewed in 
a certain light the components of human civilization 
in this age are a curious agglomeration of antagonisms 
and that which is inherently right is onh' predom- 
inant temporarih' and while under the influence of 
some principle or combination of events that greath' 
stirs the souls of men. Xo two human minds are of 
the same precise measure in respect to the virtues 
and capabilities, for one through inherent structure 
of faculties may be inclined and adapted to a menial 
occupation, another to a vocation embracing acute 
mechanical skill and another to the framing of or 
the execution of the law; or it ma}' be one mind is 
fashioned to be extravagant with its possessions, 
another adventurous or speculative and another 
miserly. One man may have true nobilit}' of mo- 
tive but is feeble in the power of expressing or com- 
municating his sentiments; another may be mercen- 
ary yet is able to skilfulh- and cheaply disguise the 
trait; the result in such instances is that neither indi- 
\idual is correcth* estimated b}' his fellow men. 
The over secretive, in their eagerness to conceal 
their faults or intentions, ma}' obscure actual \-irtues 
and worth}^ motives; the frank and outspoken, while 
exposing their individual weaknesses, afford oppor- 
tunities to themselves and to others for the percep- 
tion of and remed}'ing personal defects. The infe- 
rior mind when placed in control over others, takes 
cognizance onh' of their faults; the superior mind 
ma}' be severe in dealing with the weak or unprinci- 
pled but it is alert to discover and to reward an}' ex- 
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causes the righteous to suffer for the unrighteous. 
The truly magnanimous seek to reward merit wher- 
ever found; the morally inferior place a mercenary 
interpretation upon every human action and are 
prone to withhold merited reward because of finding 
some fault or defect in the one who hath earned it. 
Corrupt and antagonistic minds readily condone tur- 
bulent or warlike measures; they hurry to support 
an adventurous leader, without considering the prin- 
ciples involved or the injury they may cause the 
nation at large. It seemeth a provision in nature 
that some men shall start wrong in life and make 
many grievous blunders, so that in rectifying their 
sins they are led to reason and to evolve true phil- 
osophy for the benefit of their fellows. Genius is 
often the gainer through being hard pressed awhile 
and denied its expected rewards; for too early suc- 
cess is likely to divert the line of thought or stultify 
the ambitions so that great portents and possibilities 
may be frustrated. In the beginning of a nation's 
career the principles of government are apt to be 
corrupt to some extent, which may be a needful pro- 
vision that poets and statesmen and martyrs shall 
appear and portray the glory of righteous law in the 
land or through their example excite humanitarian 
sentiment and reformatory im.pulses. If by any 
chance a government is founded upon absolutely 
pure basic principles, there will soon be amendments 
and noxious regulations introduced by corrupt or 
partizan legislators until the original constitutional 
intents are subverted. Then, under corrupt and 
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there pure and studious minds, that ignoring pre- 
cedent and appealing direct to Deific inspiration, 
become c]ualified to e\'oh'e new doctrines and to in- 
augurate a series of progressive struggles among 
the people. Thus it is with the common mind of 
the age. not realizing when it is prosperous or con- 
ditioned for happiness, it proceeds to experiment 
with the evil side of nature until like a persistent 
child it finds itself in troublous straits. \ow this 
great nation ma\' at times act the part of the preco- 
cious child in "setting about an incontent clamoring 
for new and untried methods and in not being satis- 
fied with the pure and simple code of the founders, 
who gained their political wisdom under corrupt and 
incompetent rule. It often happens that its recent 
legislators are men of small worldh' experience or 
the}' are possessed of narrow or selfish motives, with 
a penchant for experimental legislation or the 
amendment of laws that should not be amended, so 
that the legitimate purport of their work is 
the restoration of the conditions of gov- 
ernment which their forefathers successfully re- 
belled against. A man of outwardly pleasing de- 
meanor but without inspiration and unskilled in the 
line of duties he is required to perform, may be 
elected to responsible office, defeating perhaps one 
who hath excellent qualities and precise knowledge 
of the office concerned and whose only defect is that 
he hath not the knack or knavery to win and main- 
tain the fickle affection of the populace. Or, a man 
is elected to office who hath never seen foreign 
lands or possibly hath but a vague conception of the 



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vital interests of his own country.; consequently he 
concerns himself with petty local affairs and is 
oblivious to the peculiar diplomatic vigilance essen- 
tial to the outer commercial or political environ- 
ments of the nation. Men are so constituted as not 
to be content with unmixed happiness; excessive 
prosperity begets slothfulness and sensuality, and 
though excessive taxation aud oppressive laws or- 
dinarily beget poverty and vice, they may at the 
same time chasten a few into religious contempla- 
tion and the conditions of soul for reformatory 
and progressive effort. There can be no civilization 
in this age of our world entirely free from these 
evils, for according to the nature of the present race, 
the child and the adult is prone to idleness when not 
pursuing what affords some immediate or prospec- 
tive gratification and one kind of activity becomes irk- 
someasanother when followed toexcess. Takenall in 
all, it is charity if not wisdom to conclude that in 
the complex and composite civilization of this land, 
there is much we impulsively condemn as inju- 
dicious, oppressive or vile that in truth is essential 
to the higher development and perfection of the 
race. Now if you are satisfied with your experiences 
on the material plane, we will proceed hence to the 
spiritual zones of our planet. 

Enotiin: We have sufficient information of the 
material plane for our purposes. Let us proceed to 
the spiritual zones, 



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SCENE XL. Tarampa, Lower Spiritual Zone. 



Ettigur: Saith a spirit newly arrived from earth 
to an instructor: O worthy instructor! I feel the 
burden of a sinful career upon my soul. Teach me, 
I pray thee, how I shall find relief and place myself 
honorably with my fellow men and harmoniously 
with divine law. Saith the instructor: It is need- 
ful for thee in the beginning, to fully appreciate the 
extent and purport of thy misdeeds, then thou canst 
proceed with their rectification. Look thou upon 
the record of thy life as it is kept here and repeat 
what appeareth as thy greater errors and defects. 
Saith the spirit: The follies of youth are vividly re- 
freshed upon my memory and more unfavorable still, 
are certain unpropitious ambitions, passions and 
intrigues of my maturer years. Certain strong and 
visibly superior faculties which were vouchsafed me 
by nature, I employed to grossly selfish ends, while 
the numerous opportunities for benevolence that en- 
compassed me, I failed to take heed of. The forms 
of many persons who suffered through my avarice 
and sensualities, float before my vision and seem- 
ingly demand compensation. And yet, while no 
actual sin hath escaped this fearful record, I am 
rejoiced to find some truly commendable motives 
and actions to my credit. O worthy teacher! let me 
quickly begin the rectification of the evil in my life 
that I may meditate upon and enjoy those reflected 
principles and activities which my conscience finds 
approvable. Saith the instructor: First then, be- 
cause of the indebtment thou hast incurred with 



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nature, great exertions will be demanded of thee; for 
here, as upon the material plane, the duties of cur- 
rent existence will confront thee. No inhabitant of 
this zone hath power to absolve thee from the just 
penalties of thy transgressions, though all may desire 
thy regeneration and many will lend thee kindly 
assistance. Go forth now with the intent of 
making full reparation to all that have suffered 
through thy wilful actions and likewise make effort 
to attain such personal virtues as will enable thee to 
associate with the upright and accomplished. Seek 
out those who cherish grievances against thee and 
favor them until their good will is obtained, then 
proceed with thy debts in every departm.ent of 
nature. Work with consistency and with honest 
design, making especial effort to compensate those 
having sustained injuries at thy hand, and at all 
times keep in view thy personal improvement and 
preparation for the ultimate Heaven. In this 
phase of our cycle of existences it is found a 
pressing duty to rectify the errors of earth life, after 
which achievement we are qualified for our true 
spiritual consciousness and for participation in the 
manifold joys of our surroundings here. While those 
who in life departed not from natural law are to be 
considered fortunate and those who erred much or 
failed to rightly utilize their opportunities are to be 
regarded as unfortunate, it is yet possible for the 
soul after reaching this zone to enter upon a career 
of reformation that if pursued with intelligence and 
energy, may bring it a fair measure of happiness and 
enable it to overtake the truly blest ones of its order 
and generation. 



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Gehril : Now let us enter a skilfiilh* constructed 
obser\-ator}'. here at our hand, and take panoramic 
views of existence in this zone. 

Ejiouin: WitJi observing imtruments. E\-er\- 
configuration of the material world, even ever\' in- 
cident of climate, of scenery and of animate life, 
hath its spiritual counterpart here but enhanced in 
point of brillianc}' and general perfectiveness from 
the estate it maintained upon earth. Within our 
vision are high mountains and broad plains and the 
limpid waters of rivers and seas, and there are num- 
erous animal forms, of which the herbivorous and 
the predaceous orders may be observed in fearless 
association with each other and all undisturbed by 
the presence of man. Here are also great cities with 
an architecture far excelling in magnificence an}' 
that is existent upon the material plane, and there 
are many institutions of learning with their comely 
and efficient teachers and intelligent and aspiring 
pupils. While the less admirable human traits 
and methods still abound, there maintains in sur- 
rounding nature such tendencies of quickening the 
intellect that the self perfections or reforms which 
upon earth cost severe and laborious struggles, have 
here nearly the character of pastimes or of needful 
diversions. The parentive instincts still maintain, 
and many patriarchial sires and matronh' dames are 
to be seen exulting in their posterit}' and exercis- 
ing a certain guardainship over the youthful mem- 
bers of their lineage, while those childless in life are 
wont to seek ou:t and care for the orphaned, aband- 
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in here prematurely from earth. She that hath been 
a faithful mother finds high honors due her -here; the 
adorning gems that mark the recognition of this 
function are seen to excel in their splendor many of 
the epaulettes of genius and of social fame earned 
in material life. The commiingling pains and joys 
coincident with the parental function appear to have 
stamped a characteristic strength and nobility of 
bearing, as nature's reward for having given bodily 
forms and legitimate citizenship among men to wait- 
ing elementals. The perfections of mankind in gen- 
eral may be said to be more pronounced and wideh^ 
prevalent here than upon the earth plane, while the 
vices and defects are less glaring. Some are evi- 
dently striving to prolong the riotous pleasures of 
youth and others are still insubordinate, ignorant 
and uncouth but happily the arrangements here are 
such that these ill conditioned individuals are unable 
to intrude upon the domain of their more worthy 
bretheren. Stretching far hence into the regions of 
space are realms upon realms sustaining myriads of 
souls who have long since severed all relationship 
with the material plane and who are now preparing 
for the transfer to another zone. 

Gebiil: Of necessity the soul elements of this 
zone show many divergences, extremes and angul- 
arities; for various are the kinds and conditions that 
constantly swarm over here from the material plane. 



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SCENE XLI. Benimba, Intermediate Spiritual 

Zone. 

Ittigur. With observing instntments : The scene 
within our vision is of exceeding grandeur, and so 
wondrously varied is the expression of its features 
that had we not studied their basic principles on 
lower and simpler planes they would now appear to 
us fairly dazzling, magical and indescribable. The 
general outlines of the material world are still up- 
held, though the landscape hath taken on a remark- 
able freshness and beauty. Hill and dale are res- 
plendent with many hued vendure, while instead of 
sombre colored rocks upon the mountain summits, 
there are glittering crystalline formations set plenti- 
fully with great lustrous gems that the richest mines 
of earth never equalled. There are fresh green 
meadows and yellow tinted fields bestrewn upon 
valley and plain where the domesticated herbivora 
pursue their peaceful functions, and there are se- 
cluded hills and plateaux and entrammeled forests 
where the feral species find congenial haunts. The 
world hath a surprising miagnitude here, because of 
our distance above the material surface whereby the 
common hemispheres are greatly enlarged, enabling 
every terrestrial land and sea to extend over a 
mighty expanse in its spiritual superstructure. The 
inhabitants are supplied, with excellently devised 
homes in the cities and about the rivers, lakes or sea 
shores, and there are picturesque lodgments deep in 
the lonely forests and the mountain fastnesses as 
suitable resorts for recreation and rest from intellec- 



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tual pursuits. Cities of broad area are frequently 
met with and their streets abound with towering edi- 
fices designed like those on earth for amusement, 
instruction and devotion. The people invariably 
wear benevolent and happy countenances, having 
apparently outgrown their grosser selfish impulses 
ere reaching this zone, and their intelligent and 
noble bearing imparts a quickening joy to 
whomsoever they meet. Religious and political an- 
tagonisms are unknown and the mind of each indi- 
vidual hath such comprehensiveness and magnani- 
mity that it is protected from error and from giving 
offense. The pastimes and duties are harmoniously 
interspersed and the infinite variety of concerns en- 
gaging even an ordinary mind give constant exhiler- 
ation to its faculties and a perpetual relish for exis- 
tence. In the higher realms of this zone there is 
manifest among the inhabitants a joyous expectancy 
of the time w^hen they shall pass over to the superior 
spiritual zone, toward w^hich they have yearnings 
after the manner of the devout human mind that 
yearns for the Heaven its religious faith hath 
dilineated. 



SCENE XLII. Ilbarama, Superior Spiritual 

Zone. 



E7io7ii7i. With observing i?istricme?2ts : In this zone 
every terrestrial feature appears to have attained the 
zenith of perfection, and according to our capabili- 



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ties of discernment there remains naught in nature 
that would add to the bliss of its inhabitants. Such 
facts in science as relate to the innermost processes 
of the stately suns and planets of the sub-universe 
and to the infinitismal atoms that make up their ma- 
terial and spiritual elements, facts that are far be- 
yond the grasp of the earthh' intellect, have here an 
eas}' and satisfactory solution. The medley host of 
stars visible from the material plane and of whose 
organization and mo\'ements men have gained as yet 
but vague conceptions, here offer such possibilities 
of research that, assisted by cunningly devised in- 
struments, we have views indescribabh' beauteous 
and instructi\'e. The aggregation of stars constitut- 
ing the sub-universe becomes as an intricately or- 
gan 1 z e c 1 body in space, and set about it in all direc- 
tions throughout the illimitable heavens are other 
bodies equalh' great, though some of them are 
placed so distant from us as to appear less significant 
than a mere planet that happens to be within close 
range. Every sub-universe, in sooth, appeareth as a 
miehtv mechanism, the to\' of some celestial o;iant 
whose moving vehicles are majestic suns and their 
satellites, all being so perfecth' attuned as to be self 
perpetuating and eternal in their organization. The 
dense matter of a planet world is seen to be serving 
the purposes of life in its varied manifestations and 
the rarified etherea of interplanetary space is coursed 
by numerous magnetic and spiritual energies while it 
serves also as a media through which disembodied 
souls ma}' transport themselves with inconceivable 
rapidity from one world focus to another. Our 



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facilities for contemplating the external glory of a 
sun or planet are here immeasurably superior to the 
most excellent yet attained on earth; the power of 
the instruments being so acute that upon directing 
them toward several points in the heavens that 
appear to the material eye merely blank space, we 
discover routes that are replete with various spiritual 
forms and coursed by angelic bands upon in- 
ter-world journeys. Thus the materially visible ob- 
jects of the sub-universe are found to have an impor- 
tance as sustainers of the life stage of soul entities 
and also as the invigorating resources of certain in- 
ter-planetary currents, while the expanse between 
these substantial bodies hath an importance as the 
media of various circulating forces and elements or 
as the resort of the disembodied. The qualified obser- 
ver here hath command of magnificent distances and 
a facility of penetration that may far transcend the 
boundaries of our sub-universe and take accurate ad- 
measurements of other like divisions of the greater 
heavens. When viewed from the spiritual estate of 
nature, the material world does not, with all its 
varied elements, seem more densely populous than 
many districts situate in Vv^hat is to the human vision 
blank space; though the Earth, as a materially and 
spiritually inclusive body, becomes a remarkable 
focus of attraction for soul entities in certain phases 
of the animative cycle. The details of the actual 
glories of this zone are verily beyond descrip- 
tion by us in language understandable on the 
physical plane; let us not attempt their discussion but 
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we ma\' in future derive from their remembrance a 
series of poetic extravaganzas for our brethren in 
Iltromene. On a noble cloud girt plateau rising be- 
fore us, with scenic splendors for the eye, musical 
harmonies for the ear and soothing odors for the 
nostrils, is the celestial cit\' of Ibrim. Let us now 
betake ourselves there and bid adieu to the worthy 
Zoraba, concluding thus our observations of this 
wondrous zone, which we have to acknowledge is in 
most respects too advanced for our comprehension. 



SCENE XLIIL Elomiel, Court of Ibrim. 

Ibrim: Hail now, sons of Iltromene I Is th\- 
mission to our planet so soon accomplished? 

Ittigur: We have in the brief inter\-al since our 
departure hence interviewed man\- phases of thy 
noble planet and acquired considerable knowledge 
of human life and of the career of the soul. W'e found 
scenic outlines of the material plane reproduced, 
enlarged and beautified in the spiritual zones and we 
took note of talents and vices among men and traced 
their sequences from the one phase of existence to 
the other. Our interest in the events of our journe}' 
was continualh' whetted by the untiring zeal and 
enthusiasm of our most estimable companion. Gebril. 
without whom our \'isit must have been near fruit- 
less, owing to the remarkable difference in what we 
saw to that with which we were accustomed in our 
native world. From our experiences in thy domains, 



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we feel constrained to say, thou hast a world so 
highly favored in its material and spiritual organi- 
zation, that the more we view and meditate upon its 
varied qualities the more is our admiration excited, 
while we find a resource of joy in contemplating the 
mystic powers in nature which designed this pleas- 
ing fragment of the universe. 

Ibrim: To meet with such earnest and aspiring 
souls from a distant planet affords me a peculiar 
pleasure and a yearning that you may take with you 
most correct impressions of our beloved world. This 
yearning for the correctness of thy impressions of 
us and ours prompts me to briefly discuss a few par- 
ticular features, that I doubt not have come within 
thy range of observation and of which I would that 
you might know the trend of our philosophy upon. 

Enoui?i: We shall be pleased indeed to listen to 
thy words, good Zoraba, for there were abundant 
phenomena that we had not time to explore to our 
entire satisfaction, but which we thought to retain 
in memory, believing that in due course we might 
unravel their import and thereon evolve comprehen- 
sive theories for our home people. 

Ibrim: We find that nature performs her mater- 
ial functions with elements and forces that in im- 
mediate effect often antagonize each other, but 
which in their final purports attain an end beneficent 
to the system in its entirety. Since the beginning of 
the Earth's evolution from the primal nebula, every 
organic and inorganic force and element hath in 
turn performed some essential function in its course 
of activities, profitable in some degree to every other 



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force and element, and through the innumerable 
powers thus engaged the crude conditions of earh' 
epochs have been changed to the tranquil orderthey 
show in modern time. In the solidifying processes 
of the Earth's exterior crust, powerful and locally 
antagonistic forces effected essential changes in the 
quality and configuration of the surface stratum. 
Bodies of land were lifted from the ocean depths to be 
clothed with verdure and to sustain innumerable air 
breathing creatures, while coeval with their eleva- 
tion other lands that had been leveled through the 
erosion of ages of exposure to atmospheric elements, 
were submerged to sustain 2 \ to receive enrich- 
ment from marine life. The i:mospheric elements, 
through their varied and destructive activities, were 
potent factors in the development of the lands of the 
Earth; wearing down the shapeless hill masses and 
mountain peaks and creating new strata and in pur- 
port favoring the plant and animal species. When 
the more vigorous agents of the Earth's evolution 
had made sufficient preparation, the primal element- 
al of plant and animal spread forth throughout the 
land and sea and they in turn created conditions for 
yet higher types. The primal animal forms were of 
simple or unwieldy structure and slow intelligence, 
but through the progression engendered by mutual 
forces in nature, there were evolved species more 
graceful in their outlines and capable of varied and 
intelligent activities. » An abundant vegetation did 
service in absorbing the noxious gases that filled 
the primal atmosphere and converting them into 
new substances, which, besides giving sustenance to 



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myriads of animated creatures, formed mineral 
deposits that have become the heritage of civilized 
man. And creatures of the sea, from the minute 
coral builders to gigantic amphibians, in pursuing their 
normal routine of existence unwittingly performed 
noteworthy services, as is shown by their relics in 
the surface stratum of the planet. Then man, 
who was primarily capacitated as an ordinary animal 
type, eventually entered upon methods that elevated 
him above the mere instinctive labors, so that with 
precise knowledge he began to improve the face of 
material nature and to envelop the w^orld with a 
halo of intellect and spirituality. And thus subter- 
ranean fires that created the hill and low land, and 
the forces of the atmosphere that gave them shapely 
outlines and produced a soil for plant life, and 
creatures of the sea and plants and animals each in 
their turn have labored toward the achievement of 
definite purposes in the S}'Stem of nature and not one 
has existed in vain. Now, if we transcend our im- 
mediate surroundings and go forth into the depths of 
heavenly space, we find in radiant streams round 
about a great central focus, elements embracing 
every hidden force of the sub-universe, w^hile amidst 
the ramifications of its extensive zones are distri- 
buted t}^pical souls of every world, and withal such 
an accumulation of splendors that a considerable 
period of time is necessary for the finite mind to 
comprehend its details. W^e discover that the 
Earth was brought from an original chaotic nebula to 
the perfections of an era. sustenant of creatures en- 
dowed with an incipient intellect, that budding forth 



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feebly at material birth, expands thenceforward 
throughout their cycle of consciousness in accord 
with their fixed racial destiny. The Kalpa cycle, of 
duration too vast for human comprehension, marks 
the outflow of incalculable forces and myradsof soul 
entities from Pan-Elysium, all of which must needs 
return in due course, and during this epoch these 
peculiarly related principles thus pulsating betw^een 
the two sub-universal poles constitute, as it were, 
different functional organs of the one bodily struc- 
ture. And so hath the matter of the sub-universal 
system no increase nor decrease in quantity, neither 
may there be any increase or decrease in the num- 
ber of organized or habitable planets; for there is 
maintained at all times an interstructural counter- 
poise through the evolution of one planetary and 
vital system being invariably coeval with the disin- 
tegration of another. In the processes of the gener- 
ation of offspring, we discover that nature is neither 
blind nor extravagant in giving fertility; that she 
does not bring elemental souls into the atmosphere 
of Earth at any time in excess of the possibilities of 
embodiment or of life sustaining resources. In 
reviewing the conditions of intellectual progress, we 
find that in the barbaric estate man is a w^eakling 
with meagre safeguards against ravenous or venom- 
ous creatures or climatic rigors or the miasms of 
stagnant waters; in the civilized estate the creatures 
that do him evil are subdued, the rigors of 
climate are provided against and the miasms are 
dispelled by drainage and the confining of turbulent 
rivers to their proper channels. In the barbaric 



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estate onh' those who employ brutal force and cun- 
ning obtain the respect of their neighbors or become 
prosperous in worldly effects; in the civilized estate 
laborious energy and intelligent enterprise become 
the essentials to material prosperity and good repute 
among men. In the barbaric estate there is a great 
expenditure of labor that yields no beneficent 
returns, as in religious sacrifices and the extrava- 
gance of misguided or incompetent rulers; in the 
civilized estate the forms of worship entail no waste- 
ful sacrifices and the rulers have not license to ap- 
propriate the productions of the people to unwise 
or selfish ends. In the barbaric estate man hath no ex- 
act knowledge either of his own powers or possibilities 
or of the material phenomena about him; in the 
civilized estate he becomes familiar with his bodily 
structure and mindful of its needs and is able to 
estimate his virtues comparatively with those of his 
neighbors, and is so informed of nature's agencies 
that he can account for any violent or unusual phe- 
nomena that he may observe to take place. 
Man in the barbaric estate recognizes few obliga- 
tions to other men and respects no law but that of 
physical might; in the civilized estate he hath an acute 
consciousness of the demands of society and finds 
comfort in reflecting that for every intersocial obli- 
gation that impinges upon himself he is compensated 
by some personal advantage and an increased as- 
surance that the wealth his toil and thrift hath pro- 
duced is secure for his enjoyment. In the barbaric 
estate his mental activities are restricted to certain 
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irreligious or unlawful to essay; in the civilized 
estate his range of thought hath wide scope and every 
manifestation of originality or genius finds popular 
approval. In the barbaric estate he is subject to 
turbulent and uncertain passions and is wanting in 
confidence in himself and in his fellow beings; in the 
civilized estate he rejoices in an intellectual mastery 
of the passions and sustains a wholesome faith in 
himself and in the honorable intents of his fellow 
beings. In the barbaric estate he is harrassed with 
misgivings of angry gods or demons or ghostly forms, 
to obtain immunity from which he resorts to self 
torture or costly sacrifices; in the civilized estate he 
is aware that angry gods are not the instigators 
of adverse phenomena and he is disposed to a belief 
in the good intents of every spiritual entity having 
power to approach or to exert an influence upon 
him. The true civilization. however, is \'et 
to come upon the earth plane; for as the 
precarious methods of subsistence and provision 
against dangers peculiar to primitive man were 
changed by enlightenment to the more elaborate and 
reliable methods peculiar to modern civilization, so 
will modern methods be changed by further enlight- 
enment to a still more elaborate and satisfactory or- 
der. The imperfectly defined and antagonistic 
creeds now maintained among men are resultant of 
the exceeding political turbulence prevalent during 
recent centuries among those nations who should 
take precedence in theological concerns, whereby 
the evolution of the true religion hath been delayed. 
When without clearly revealed doctrines, the mind 



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that is conscious of its weaknesses and shamed at 
its frequent violation of nature's laws or mayhap of 
solemnly imposed vows or resolutions, is wont to 
implore some inferior god or saint or deified object 
instead of the proper ruling powers of the universe 
— it's vague knowledge of which hath led to the 
portrayal of a dread and unrelenting adjudicator of 
human affairs, and the ignoring of that sympathetic 
faculty of Deific nature which is interwoven and con- 
current with the finite being. With such state 
of theology men often believe themselves hope- 
lessly in disfavor with Heaven and through 
this misconception some are even led into a career 
of self abandonment, w^hen if they knew to treat the 
weakness or deed simply as a temporary hindrance 
or misstep in a course of life that may be righteous in 
intents and beneficent in general purports, the defec- 
tion might properly be made use of to moralize upon 
and through a chastened and repentant spirit to in- 
duce a guiding inspiration for the mind in its future 
proceedings. In considering individual traits, we 
find that while inherent genius, viewed as an eternal 
heritage of the ego, will often struggle through un- 
favorable material conditions and win the highest 
goal of a calling or philosophic cult, success in life 
is not absolutely assured to the possessor of such en^ 
dowments; for it is demonstrable that the ego genius 
may, through adverse surroundings or mistaken 
methpds, be unhinged, thwarted or fatally delayed 
while the most commonplace ego-intellect hath 
such posibilities of unfoldment, through propitious 
circumstances or aptly chosen methods, as will en- 



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able it to become wealth}', of good repute or 
even eminent among its follows. If follies are 
persisted in, the moral instinct is ordained 
to impose upon the inner consciousness a sense 
of personal demerit, causing the soul to tire 
of a locality or zone whatever the prevailing attrac- 
tions; but if righteousness is adhered to there entails 
such joy in each zone or sphere of existence that the 
soul is loth to depart even though realizing that the 
one to which it is destined hath greater glories. It is 
the fate of those who lag behind in the intellectual 
race, through indolence or through the employment 
of their faculties with trivial concerns or with base 
indulgences, to fail not only in reaping a goodly 
share of true pleasure in the earthly- and spiritual es- 
tates but also to find upon reaching Pan-Eh'sium 
that they have access only to its inferior parts; that 
the meagreness of their attainments compels them 
to view the chiefest celestial glories from afar. The 
soul finds as its rewards for industrial activit}-, the 
practice of benevolence and for personal chastity, a 
realization of the perfect joys of material and spiri- 
tual existence and our philosophy teaches that upon 
arrival at Pan-Elysium it will find itself entitled to 
the inner celestial glories, which may be 
considered the nearest approach to Deity and 
the ultimate of finite happiness. Hence they 
are fortunate, if not conscioush' wise, that fill 
their karma with pure motives, with know- 
ledge and with personal excellences; for these give 
true happiness in every zone of the universe and 
prove treasures of a most desirable and unpurchas- 



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able kind when the terminal Heaven is attained. 
Those who have neglected the normal duties and 
responsibilities for passional indulgences, find a spiri- 
tually impoverished and evil karma to their account 
that bestrews their pathway with difficulties, and 
when eventually Pan-Elysium is attained they are 
humiliated by perceiving their inferiority, in com- 
parison with others, in profitable possessions and 
accomplishments. The wilfully undeserving in 
every zone invariably possess sufficient intelligence, 
to discern that the more sublime joys are not with- 
held from them through Deific vengeance or as an 
inflicted punishment, but that the karma of their 
own creation imposes the unfavorable condition, 
from which nature can only absolve them at the ter- 
minal of their animative cycles by obscura- 
tion of their consciousness and their expulsion 
forth for re-birth upon another world. Opportunities 
are afforded in each cycle of the soul to make its 
own happiness or misery, through obedience to or 
violation of nature's law — infinite power affording the 
conditions — finite power employing them wisely 
or unwisely, profitably or unprofitably to itself. 
In the sum total of its experiences, the soul is en- 
abled to solve and understand all that pertains to 
finite nature, but that which it must fail to solve 
or understand is the Infinite or unchangeable side 
of nature. The soul is not absolved from an un- 
atoned offense through mere lapse of time, nor will 
evil doing, in any case, go unpunished by nature. 
The evil doer, sooner or later, finds himself com- 
pelled to compensate his misdeeds and to win the 



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favor of nature by honest effort; the unattainted 
soul upon reaching the spiritual plane, may proceed 
with the labors and joys of its new surroundings un- 
disturbed by reproachful memories. The failure to 
achieve necessary preparation of soul in life by those 
efficiently endowed and circumstanced, portends ar- 
duous efforts in the spiritual zones toward acquire- 
ment of the wanting qualities, as, in benevolent 
attentions to other souls yet more unfortunate 
and especially to infantiles or those who have been 
wholly or in part deprived of material experience. 
Thus it becomes a seemingly fortunate provision 
that infantile and defective spirits abound on the 
lower spiritual plane, that those who in life were 
capacitated and yet failed of parentive or benevo- 
lent duties may find opportunity to develop these 
essentials to the perfected individuality. Now, fair 
Iltromenes! I wot thou hast enough of Earth history 
and of our institutions and philosophy to suffice thy 
mxission with us. I would fain have thee stay longer, 
but I perceive thou art not constituted to sojourn a 
great time upon a planet like ours. Convey ni}' 
respects to Denhassa, thy world's ruler, and ma\- 
thy long journey have constant cheer both from 
memory of our goodly realms and from expectant 
yearnings tow^ard scenes of the home land that 
await thy coming. 

Enouin : Thy words have stirred our sympathies 
and enkindled deep gratitude in our hearts, most' 
admirable Zoraba! and we offer our assurance that 
thy sage teachings will have earnest consideration. 
We shall henceforth delight to reflect upon this 



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fortunate interview with thee, and when w^e impart 
our knowledge gained through thy good offices to 
our bretheren, they will certainly rejoice with us 
and sing praises of thee and of thy excellent world. 

Ittigtir : And thou, Gebril! efficient guide and 
companion in our exploits, 'tis difficult to find words 
adequate to express the gratitude we enter- 
tain for thy efforts in our behalf. Peace and 
love be with thy happily conditioned soul! and may 
the delightsome Earth thou hast such wisdom of 
move tranquilly and speedily onward to its mil- 
lenial epoch. 

E?ioui?i : With our best wishes for the continued 
progress and prosperity of the inhabitants of these 
favored realms and for especial honors to come up- 
on those we here address, we now leave thee, 
Zoraba! Gebril! and glorious Earth! to begin our 
journey upward through the star flecked heavens. 

Chorus of Asse7nblcd Angels : May thy passage 
through space, Enouin! and Ittigur! be as the dream 
of a tranquil night — the vast distances between 
world and world seeming to thee a mere falcons 
flight across a terrestrial vale. May thy reception 
by kindred from whom thou art long separate, be 
such an occasion as we sometimes see in these 
realms when enraptured bretheren meet and the 
natural affections have bounteous outflow. When 
thou art distant from our world's radial light, may 
thy memories of us be yet afresh, and even when 
our sun, Xephela, is become as an ordinary star in 
thy vision may thy hearts still warm toward us. 
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furthermore, may it happen that when the souls of 
our generation shall pass through the realms of our 
common Elysium, we shall meet thee and so rejoice 
and commune again together. 



GLOSSARY. 



Agathian Age, A division of the Kalpa Cycle, approximating 
84,375 Earth years. 

Ajitanian Age, A division of the Kalpa Cycle approximating 
21,09334 Earth years. 

Anagrian Age, A division of the Kalpa Cycle approximating 
337,500 Earth years. 

Aniniative Cycle . A cycle commencing with the departure of 
the ego as an elemental from Pan-Elysium to Earth and 
ending with its return to Pan-Elysium an enlightened and 
perfected intelligence. 

Anthropogenia7i Age, A division of the Kalpa Cycle approxi- 
mating 5,400,000 Earth years. 

Benimba, The second or intermediate spiritual zone enve- 
loping the Earth. 

Ego. The eternal personality of the soul. 

Elemental, The soul in the unconscious or ante-natal phase of 
its animative cycle. 

Elo7niel, Residence of Ibrim, Zoraba of the planet Earth. 

Episte7nian Age, A division of the Kalpa Cycle approximat- 
ing 1,350,000 Earth years. 

Ilbarama. The third or upper spiritual zone enveloping the" 
Earth. 



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Kalpa Cycle. A cyclic age commencing with the great peri- 
odical outflow of planetary matter from the sun and end- 
ing with the return and absorption of the same in the 
solar mass. Approximately 8,640,000,000 Earth years, 
viz.: Brahminical system 2,000 Maha Yugas, or a day and 
night of Brahma. 

Karma, An exterior or created intellectuality that may either 
be harmonious with or antagonistic to the real or in- 
herent intellectuality of the soul. 

Megazoan Age . A division of the Kalpa Cycle approximating 
21,600,000 Earth years. 

Methelian Age, A division of the Kalpa Cycle approximating 
86,400,000 Earth years. 

Nephela, A name of the sun, as distinguishing it from other 
such liiminaries of the universe. 

Nirvana, Heavenly joy — a state of perfect tranquility of 
the soul. 

Pan-Elysium. The physical and Paradisial centre of a sub- 
universe . The focus of emanation for soul entities at the 
beginning of their animative cycles and of attraction 
from the time of their physical birth. 

Para-Nirvana. The perfect nirvana of H eaven — only realizable 
in Pan-Elysium. 

Pralaya. An epoch of material disorganization that obtains in 
a solar and planetary chasm from the terminal of one 
Kalpa cycle till the beginning of the next cycle. 

Sage. One morally glorified and intellectually capable of per- 
ceiving inherent truths of nature and of formulating 
doctrines thereon for the spiritual guidance of others. 



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Sajanian Age. A division of the Kalpa cycle approximating- 
5,273 Earth years. 

Sub-Universe. An aggregation of inter-dependent suns and 
worlds which is constantly aloof from and repellant to 
all other material bodies of the greater or illimitable 
universe. 

Taranipa, The first or lower spiritual zone enveloping the 
Earth. 

Theokosmos, Deity inclusive of the illimitable Universe and 
within whose mighty organism mankind subsists as a 
serviceable component. 

Zoraba. A soul of masterful attainments. One who wields 
the highest political authority in the Earth's spiritual 
system. 



TDIE DIVISIONS OF THE KALPA CYCLE. 



The Kalpa Cycle approximates 8,640,000,000 Earth years, 
and is equal to 

100 Methelian Ages of 86,400,000 years each. 
400 Megazoan Ages of 21,600.000 years each. 
1,600 Anthropogenian Ages of 5,400,000 years each. 
6,400 Epistemian Ages of 1,350,000 years each. 
25,600 Anagrian Ages of 337,500 years each. 
102,400 Agathian Ages of 84,375 years each. 
409,600 Ajitanian Ages- of 21,093^ years each. 
1,638.400 Sajanian Ages ot 5,273 years each. 



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